People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

Mean people are no fun.

When we first sort of break in or bust into the house, if you will, there's some tough love.

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

It's not a party until the fire department shows up.

Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at.

In college you have the license to do things you'll never do again, so have fun with it.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.

The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably true of antifreeze as well, but illusion is nearly all we have.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common.

If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store

What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.