I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.