I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.

I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.

I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.

One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.

Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.

Great French design is often about unexpected touches.

It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.

I need solitude for my writing

Silence hung around the corners, draped like spider webs across all surfaces and hanging like smog in the air.

Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.

When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.

Here in the U.S., we've made democracy into a science. A cold, impersonal science.

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.