I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.

I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

It's all about new techniques -- simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster, but not worse.

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.