Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

You are what you pretend to be.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.

A wise man fights to win but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

Begin, and you are halfway there.

There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.

My son is my routine and priority, period!

Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebody should check it out.

The only deadline is the one I give myself.

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.