Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters.

In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.

Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?

Twilight of the idols, it cursed from the worship of the extinguished candles.

[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Life is a solitude.

The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?

The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.

Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then.