Chihuly wanted to open the exhibition in August, but we politely explained that was not a good idea -- the best decision I ever made.

We're Miami's best-kept secret. People don't know we work with 27,000 schoolchildren a year and do conservation work in 15 countries.

His work is organic, so it compliments the garden. To me, the shapes and colors are as if you boiled down a rain forest or a coral reef.

There's more to life than work - just keep repeating that and maybe it will sink into us all.

An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing.

Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.