Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.

Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Life is meant to be shared and fully lived.

She looked at him, his black, depthless eyes like boiling wells of oil.

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.

Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.

Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.

Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

...all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where?

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.