Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was born.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.

Typography exists to honor content.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

By all means break the rules.

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.

If you try to do a task at your odd hours, you will waste so much time only to find out that you did a poor job after all.

Normality is much less captivating than the extraordinary.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

Life is all about making others SUCCESSFUL!!

I want you to make a list of all of your favorite things, and I want to be on it.

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

DNCE is “dance without the a.” It’s not a perfect word, and you don’t always have to be a perfect dancer to dance. Life is just sometimes not perfect.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

When liberals are behind something, I'm automatically suspicious.

And I am happy when I sing.