People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

He's the boy who smokes Marlboro cigarettes and I'm the girl who makes theater puppets. Dreams and ashes—two things in the universe that should never meet because they are opposites, right?

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!

Growing up, my room was covered in posters. I was like, "I want to make posters."

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.