Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.

If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will.

I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium.

An airport carpet can tell you everything about its surroundings!

If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]

I hate gold. It does not pay a dividend, it has no value, and you can't work out what it should or shouldn't be worth," he said. "It is the last refuge of the desperate.

Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.