I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds

By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, ‘Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don’t.’ I’m not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say no. The power of slow is the power of no. I can’t go to every party I get invited to. I can’t do every work thing.

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

With most people doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

No matter how much I try, I cant figure out how to not be adorable!

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

I'm a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust - you adopt it from being a New Yorker.