There's design and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

When a woman becomes her individual most effective close friend existence is simpler.

Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.

Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.