In any year, the stats in Iowa show we are in a relatively safe location, but that can change dramatically; a lot of it depends on what travels through our campus.

Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in.

Life is so complicated that sometimes it is better to pass up.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.

I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river.

I love street races; theres something about racing in the middle of a city.