The front room of his house was what I called ‘untidy chic’. Prefects weren’t subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness...

I like messy. What fun is tidy?

I don’t eat Sloppy Joes. I eat Tidy Josephs.

As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can’t take proper care of too many things. That’s why I want to cherish properly the things I love.

The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don’t.

Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the...