Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

Rooms should be timeless.

Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.

Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.

I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.

You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.

It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

If your Life is full of Sorrow, then beg, steal, or borrow ENTHUSIASM from a great soul to make your Life whole.

We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.

A lot of people my age think stand up sucks.

The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement

I'm one of those people who tells my wife, "No coaching from the sidelines."

A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.

Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.

Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.