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.

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.

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.

Leaving your future to pot luck is holding you back, you are worth more than anything, yet why do you leave everything to chance?

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Be ye innocent as doves yet wise as serphants" new testament quoted by Elvis Presley and applied to karate

Sometimes it may seem dark, but the absence of the light is a necessary part.

Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.

I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.

As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

I think the community that you're in really can define your ability to be at peace with your circumstances.

Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths

The most important thing for us to do as beings is to be aware of our position in the world on a micro and macro level.