So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

Everyone makes mistakes. Whether we put our mistakes to use depends on how deeply we reflect on our actions. It is desirable to reflect until the tears come. - On Self-Reflection -

Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression

Want is an empty void — your real value is full and abundant.

Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.

I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.

Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

I think kids love superheroes, and the more you can crowd into a story, the more excited they get.