It's not a party until the fire department shows up.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

Mean people are no fun.

When we first sort of break in or bust into the house, if you will, there's some tough love.

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at.

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

In college you have the license to do things you'll never do again, so have fun with it.

Let your days become a fragrant song where heaven and earth continually collide

He says I'm beautiful as a red tomato

sometimes you need to make a mess.

A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You'd just be like, I am bike cheese. Because you wouldn't know what words were.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.

We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

When I wrote about the Spanish Civil War many years later, I used documents that I picked up when I was a child, as a lot hadn't been published (a lot more resources are available now).

It would be nice if at least 1/3 of the people in Korea think that I'm modest.

I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.