Judith Miller Quotes

My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.

I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly.

You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.'

In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.

We think we own things, but the reality is, our things own us.

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.

I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

I'm an extremist. If I go to a sneaker store, I buy 20 pairs of sneakers, not one.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.