Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

Never put sofas against wall.

Everything is really about lighting.

Find the ideal in something not ideal.

A la Rothschild, a style I define as many good things used irreverently.

Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats.

Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me.

I don't like bare floors.

Having people be impressed with a house is not a compliment. You don't want them to say, 'What a place!' You want them to sit down and enjoy it.

I'll accept commissions from anyone who isn't frightened by my proposals.

You are not lonely if joy is within you

Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don’t necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

Celebrate the Ides of March but remember your own warnings less as Caesar learned, you can get killed in many ways

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

I'm not going to benefit from free college education, but I think all those things are good for the country.

Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!

Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice