The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them.

Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.

Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.

He who buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions but subtract from the sum of his desires.