Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped — when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

If you intend to die, you can do anything.

Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.

Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing.

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

The depth of talent in Israel is just spectacular. I was very excited by it because when you cast in LA, you tend to see a lot of the same faces on lists for various parts.