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.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

be the kiss in my hairthat no one seesmove, when i movesigh, when i sigh...be that line from a poemthat i hold in my eyes.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

In any situation you have the choice to stay positive and embrace it with courage, faith, and hope.

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

The glory of God is in man fully alive.

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

Sometimes fantasies are better than life.

The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.