For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.

You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations.

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

I have this mental sickness called creativity.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.

I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.

If there was one thing I had learned. . . it was that politics was a damn dirty business.

I've learned not to worry about love

The natural world is the only reality, thus the only valid base for spirituality there is.

In their sleep, both boys kept moving closer to me, and when I finally drifted off, there was one arm wrapped around my stomach and one hand intertwined with mine.

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

The reason I talk so much about the middle class is it's the glue that holds America together. It really is. And we don't speak enough to their legitimate concerns.

There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.