It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

You are what you pretend to be.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

Oh, yes. I'm terribly smart. Wouldn't it have been nice... to be intelligent?

I don’t shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like doing that.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to see success coming to others through his or her efforts.

Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.

I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can