All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot.

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?

Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the streets, irreversibly altering the place where they were set.

The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.

It’s the journey, not the destination, but that doesn’t make sense until you get there.

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.

When you really know someone, you can't hate him.

Sure I smoked pot in hospital. My wife won't let me toke at home.

Why do people do crossword puzzles? There's no reward for completing one, but some people just like the challenge.

I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty!