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

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.

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.

It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.

And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible.

Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey.

Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Why be normal? What's the point?

Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.