Really, everything is designed.

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

Words have meaning, type has spirit.

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.

Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?

The body of Christ on earth is a wonderful reality

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

Nourish the world with your words, yo.

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.

Truth, like love, is never absolute.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

I was just thinking how unfortunate it'd be to be a fat girl named Candy.