That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

You are what you pretend to be.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

Popularity does not equal respect. It is not only kids who will do what they think they must to fit in and be popular—adults do it too.

Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.

Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.