One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones

A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself

There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be undone. Come this far, and you can't go back.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

...summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows...

10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

Fat people are brilliant in bed. If I'm sitting on top of you, who's going to argue?

It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone