The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Design is everything. Everything!

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

Everything is design. Everything!

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.

He was slowly starting to recover. I could tell by the eye roll and sigh. Oh, so only he could be a comedian?

Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.Yeah... that about sums it up.

Living close to the groundIs seventh Heaven 'cause there are angels all aroundAmong my frivolous thoughtsI believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronautsWake me if you're out there.

Never try to lock the virtue’s door with the key of viceIt may lock forever

If you want different results, do not do the same things.

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

Just Cavalli for Her is a flowery and sexy fragrance. I like its freshness and feminine scent.

Here’s the deal: School is not authentic because it ends. It’s not true, it’s not real. Our learning will never end.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.