All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Children observe everything with caution.

No matter whom I'm with I'll always be alone, " she said. And she added with a roguish touch: "Excellency.

Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.

Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!

Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.

Mere nails, though pounded deep, were not enough to keep Jesus on the cross. But love was... and love prevailed.

Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.

There are always advancements that are happening with mining technology and the ability to detect gases or methane within the mine. Those things are moving forward every day.

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.