You see, if you are 30 years ahead of your time, you will always have difficulty speaking with the bosses in the industry. They are too conservative.

Look at nature - look at birds, look at fish. Things that look good, work good. People don't get the message of ergonomics.

The thing is, 75 percent of design today is absolutely outdated. It all has to be redesigned with the materials and knowledge that we now have. We know so much more than what we are doing.

I consider myself a 3-D philosopher. I am not a designer at all. I studied aerodynamics, I studied philosophy, I studied sculpture. High technology on one side, and on the other side, art.

An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!

It is absolutely the central theme in my design philosophy - that life is erotic, period. The female body is one of the most extraordinary designs ever done in this universe.

Everybody was inspired by the drawings and the wind tunnels and the race cars - but no one wanted to work with me because I had a reputation for being an aerodynamic dictator!

Single" means you are brave enough to face the glorious unknown of the unaccompanied journey.

I'm trying like hell to leave a footprint, carbon or otherwise.

What a piece of work is man!

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Abundance flows into my life in surprising and miraculous ways every day.

I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

Then it crosses my mind, "But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!"

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.