I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.

Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.

You are what you are seen to be.

The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not.

They [letters] are my friends Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever - girls' bottoms - I get kicks out of looking at type.

Inher­ent qual­ity is part of absolute qual­ity and with­out it things will appear shoddy. The users may not know why, but they always sense it.

The materials shape your idea.

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.

You are very strong if you're empowered by love and simplicity.

Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man

Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.