My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

I like the pause that tea allows

My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.

I love driving in the city at night.

I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

My inspiration is love and history.

My friends are a huge part of my inspiration.

Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.

I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.

Dominating others is not equality.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.

I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

I'm drowning in whiskey river.