We never, contrary to what you may have heard, say, 'Take this out, take that out. If they ask as or beg us ... we'll help. It's not something I love to do, because the director taking his work apart is never a pleasant situation.

The ideal person is out in the community getting feedback from other parents. We don't want hermits. We don't want anybody with a cause. . . . We're looking for parents with solid judgment who want to raise healthy kids and know that a lot goes into it.

What got my attention was their wealth of varied thinking. They've done [everything] I can possibly get involved in.

I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.