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.

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.

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.

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

You are the limit to yourself - raise yourself over it.

If you launch a career doing something you don't really like, that even if you're successful, you won't feel successful, and you'll be contemptuous of your own success.

Theres something alluring and dangerous about him, but comforting and protective. When I think about him, my stomach knots, my heart rate quickens and...and I could go on... -Laney

I don't believe in ghosts, or fairies, or crystals, or unicorns, or a man that can walk on water, or any of that non sense, I personally rely on logic, and have for the better part of my life.

It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.

We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.

I connect with an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that's just the way it is.

By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

I believe people run marathons every day of their lives in one way or another, and we need to remember to give ourselves the finishers' medals we deserve.