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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The best things in life aren't things.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

If there is any peace it will come through being, not having.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

The sign said 'Eight Items or Less' so I changed my name to Less.

Veni, vidi, Visa: I came, I saw, I bought.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

One of the most difficult tasks in this world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.