My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.