I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We’ve kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don’t need. I’m anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that’s it.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don’t keep buying just for the sake of it.

All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

That government is best which governs least.

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well – it’s good for the environment and to be fair it’s also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

Elegance is refusal.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

I don’t spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming platforms.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Simple goes a long way.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

I’m frugal. I’m not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

If you can’t eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don’t bring it.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

I don’t care about money.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

I’m not very gifted for hairdos. I don’t like gel and all those products.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

I don’t throw lavish parties or nothing like that – I just want a bed and a TV.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Simplify, simplify.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.