Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

A journey through nature is always a road thatleads to self-discovery.

if you argue for your limitations they are yours

When you go card dead its torture just sitting there.

Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star.

I was really fixated when I was a child. Again my mother was just talking to me about this, about how I would how try to get details exactly right. I guess I was always very persistent.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

This room is a testimony that there are men who want to be a man for God and a man of God.

The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.

I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.