I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.

I talk to myself, not because I'm lonely, but because sometimes I'm the only one who understands what I'm saying.

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

I could do without many things with no hardship-you are not one of them.

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.