"It's important to face down your demons."

“It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.”

“We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school.”

“Everyone is so afraid of making themselves look bad and of judgement.”

“Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.”

Source : Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

“I Google everyone I meet and I look up designers.”

“Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.”

“The sea hath fish for every man.”

Source : William Camden, John Philipot, Thomas Moule, Mark Antony Lower (1870). “Remains Concerning Britain”, p.334, Ep Publishing Limited

“An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.231, Feminist Press at CUNY