Every generation tailors history to its taste.

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

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

The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.

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.

No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly.