Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Common sense is not so common.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator