My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.

Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.

Briefs need limitations and invitations

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.

Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.

The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.

But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.

Play and transformation were a bit part of my childhood - using whatever materials were at our disposal, my brothers and I would constantly build and create fantasy worlds.

Indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind.

The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness.

Listen to learn. Learn to earn!

It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course

My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!

That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.

You know what I love best about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt - and that's just in the hot-dogs.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans.