Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been.

Life is all about seating and lighting.

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.