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 am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.

You can’t be beaten by something you laugh at.

If what you call happiness are the pleasurable feelings that you experience when things are going very well in your life, then you truly don't know what true happiness is.

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? Dexter: You're here, aren't you?

...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.

If you say something, then it exposes you.