People with big personalities are best in the center of the table. They can help carry the conversation from that place.

People buy very badly made furniture and fabric. Instead, buy a beautiful dining table, well-made upholstery. It's almost like dressing for success.

Look at your world and your life, and look at what is personal to you. If you're living in an apartment, you need to stick with a narrative that's personal to you.

Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It's all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan.

To have a 9-foot sofa in a small room can be kind of treacherous.

Think of how much furniture you need. What's the best way to have it be functional in a great way? If it's in groups, define it.

People get trapped in the way things should feel and less focused on the way things should function.

Be judicious with your budget and buy things that are going to last.

Avoid spending too much on one thing.

People buy things in isolation and don't think of how they work together.

To be influenced by a magazine and, say, a Swedish theme, unless it resonates with you, it seems kind of odd and influenced.

There was plenty for the eye to feast on, but nothing for the soul. He had a hunger for something that no sky could satisfy. Somewhere on the planet there had to be a different kind of light.

The world you acquire and partake in is purely driven by the choices taken.

Our wounds are not a measure of one individual’s sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces marriage is also three meals a day sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?

Film sets are great fun. Film people are great people to hang around with. I don't want to run off and be distracted by other things.

I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.

Sometimes holiness demands that we speak up, but oftentimes it calls us to shut up.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.