I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted to do.

Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything.

No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it.

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE.

If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.

If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.

Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at.

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

The problem contains the solution.

[Brodsky] loved cats, and sometimes for a greeting would meow.

Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.

I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

Whatever inspires you fires you.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.

All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.