The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

FAITH in God is the only fortune, there is.

Life is a beautiful dream.

Maybe that's why I'd been chosen to become the first female Reaper in history. I think the boys had been losing too many souls.

I am an owner who prefers to stay behind the scenes and allow my staff to do what they do best.

Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.

Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

If you do enough small things right, big things can happen

We're all looking for those moments - a relief. That's why people go out and treat themselves.

Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.