Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.

Hobbies are for people that don't like what they're doing.

To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

Ensure it feels like it's made by humans, for humans.

Yes, design can make you happy.

I have done enough bullshit lately, I just have to make time for something better. Something good.

I don't think there is a particular responsibility on designers that is not on other professions... I think there's a responsibility for all of us to engage on all levels.

I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.

Books—all books—are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them down too much robs of them of the magic.

Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.

To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.

When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

There is a war being waged right now on prayer and religion by liberals who are taking every opportunity to make America as God-less as possible.

Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

In the temple we can find peace. The blessings of the temple are priceless.