In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible.
Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.
The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.
The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.
I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.
There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the James Bond, and I got to do that for a bit, and that was great.
