A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

I believe God spoke to you at cliffs. Her hand came to rest on the top of my head. But perhaps you weren't truly listening

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

But the Holy Spirit is not in a hurry. Character is the produce of a lifetime.

I had forgotten such innocence exists, /forgotten how it feels/ to live with neither calendars nor clocks

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.

It's better to lose something than never to have had

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.

If it hurts, it isn't love.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.