Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

Creating a plan to bring in more business in a way that does not ultimately support yourannual goals is fighting against yourself.

Fame is worth less than service.

We all choke. You're not human if you haven t.

There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?

Love thyself, so that you can love another. Love thyself so that you cannot project fear. Love thyself so as to let others love you. Love thyself so as to let people near.

Collaboration is when you find somebody who, literally, complements and gets you that you can work with. Collaboration is when you really, really want to work with somebody.