I'm not a big fan of the tchotchkes. It always reminds me of a grandma's stuffy home with a million Santa dolls.

My design has always been a derivative of people I meet. I want to translate who they are and their personality into a room.

I think it's really important to bring your own personality to the space you're in.

The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels.

I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!

I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.

[Congress] can just make [Mitt] Romney president. And we'd be like, "All right, fine."

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.