I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Only courage to fragility makes our hearts melt with fervent love.

[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style.

Lastly, the ashes left behind, May daily show to move the mind, That to ashes and dust return we must: Then think, and drink tobacco.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

Call me 'Tuk-Tuk', and keep saying it, but remember I am the captain of Pakistan.

The air is like a draught of wine. The undertaker cleans his sign, The Hull express goes off the line, When it's raspberry time in Runcorn.

I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life