People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul.

The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.

If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress.

Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them.

Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.

Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.

I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life.

When you struggle hard and lose money, you're a hero. When you start making money you become a capitalist swine.

We were playing a game against an unknown and unforgiving opponent. The stakes were terrible—play well or die—but we didn’t even know the ground rules.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.