The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

One thing I learned from the '88 Olympics: It's not a question of if they can screw you over: it's a question of if they will. It's not the gold medal they took away from me. The medal doesn't mean anything. It's that they said I lost. That experience is well and alive in my mind.

What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.

The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.

I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.