A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.

Attention must be paid’ is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand.

If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

When you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.

The fears we keep alive, will be a recurring haunt until it dies, or we do.

Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures.

Business cannot succeed in a world that is failing.

Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.

If you told me to cry for you I could If you told me to die for you I would Take a look at my face There's no price I won't pay To say these words to you

You know what is a nice thought? Retirement.

If my photos have any value, it's because they show a Mexico that no longer exists.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.