I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when I get up in morning. But when I get up now I put the tea kettle on, and when it starts to sing it makes me smile - goddamn you!" That's what happened when we first designed it - we got a lot of mail.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when I get up in morning. But when I get up now I put the tea kettle on, and when it starts to sing it makes me smile - goddamn you!" That's what happened when we first designed it - we got a lot of mail.

I learned in architecture that you have to have a real plan. You have to have a client, they have to have distribution, start-up money, and have a vision of where it's going to go. All this has to be settled before you start, or else your work is just a story.

I know that's not something that people like to do - identify a favorite. But I do.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this