This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.

Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience.

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.

The actual division of labor must be reflected in the division of the rewards (and prices, which is the way the consumer gets rewarded).

It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son.

The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.