Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry.

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.

My errors were more fertile than I ever imagined.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.

Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.

The different sacred gifts serve a divine purpose.

When humanity's deafness to simple common sense is allowed to reign, the implications for the world can only be catastrophic.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.

I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.

Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.