There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into domestic interiors, this means people who live with, and without, clutter.

The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.