“Grace, properly understood, neither returns void, nor promote loose living!”

“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.”

“Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”

“Boredom is your mind and body’s way of telling you you’re not living up to your potential.”

“Design is all about desire, but strangely this desire seems almost subject-less today, or at least lack-less; that is, design seems to advance a new kind of narcissism, one that is all image and no interiority - an apotheosis of the subject that is also its disappearance. Poor little rich man: he is 'precluded from all fuure living and striving, developing and desiring' in the neo-Art Nouveau world of total design and Internet plenitude. ”

“Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them. I am in the latter camp. Take the names we give the animals we eat. The Patagonian toothfish is a prehistoric-looking creature with teeth like needles and bulging yellowish eyes that lives in deep waters off the coast of South America. It did not catch on with sophisticated foodies until an enterprising Los Angeles importer renamed it the considerably more palatable "Chilean sea bass.”

“Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.”