Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.

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.

To live without any regret is to act right.

Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

I understand you" is the soul behind "I Love You". If this is missing, "I Love You" is empty.

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

Dead metaphors make strong idols.

The soul is the prison of the body.

The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.