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

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.

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.

Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violetsdandelionsAnd the big bullying daisies through the field wonderfulwith eyes a little sorryAnother comes also picking flowers

Writing is a solitary occupation.

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

I think people would be surprised by his [Alessandro Michele] humility.

At Yale we don’t just want to make new things, we want to make things better.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Sometimes, there isn't any way to compromise." - Eclipse, page 607

Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.