Publicity doesn't really get me anything. Clients are not going to hire me for a $100 million building because I have a brand. They really want the product.

I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment.

The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design.

My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class.

The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.

Education is more important than skating. I want to keep up with my schoolwork and my skating.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Math education has changed over the years. In the 19th century, they taught spherical trigonometry because one of the biggest applications of mathematics was navigating the ocean. This is no longer so relevant.