Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Less isn't more; just enough is more.

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

We’re always looking, but we never really see.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bindChaos wants to devourCal wants to live

The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

I have no literary fears.

The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

The highest use of the Web is getting the information and identifying the places and the possibility of being together physically.

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.

What's a victory when its hollow?

As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.