Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped — when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.

If you intend to die, you can do anything.

Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

I am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.

Compassionate leaders know their stakeholders and address their concerns, their hopes, dreams and fears.

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.

Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it.

Love your story.

Advent creates people, new people.

And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.

System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

The pain from the abuse never went away, I just embraced it to become what I am today