Michael Bastian Quotes

Your dressing area should be your private space.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.

Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found him wanting in a number of respects, he holds an unshakable place in the pantheon of American heroes.

I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.

My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.

Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

In my beach shack, we'll be alone. In my beach shack, I'll make you feel at home.

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.

There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables.

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.

I do, however, have tape over my eyepiece as well. What I think my peace is saying isn't, "Oh I have something to hide. I don't want you to look," it's more saying, "No thank you. I prefer you not look. I'm not giving you permission."

She looked around herself, disoriented, like she’d forgotten we were at lunch. Like she’d forgotten we were even at school-surprised that we were not alone in some private place. I understood that feeling exactly. It was hard to remember the rest of the world when I was with her.

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

Thomas Jefferson survives.

You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

I just think everyone needs their own private space.

I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.

there is no pornography without a secrecy.

I'm going to be going to a secluded spot where no one can find me - NBC prime time.

I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. When the external factors of a city's environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying.

Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.