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?

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.

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.

Life is what you think about it.

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering]

People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.

Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.

Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.

There are some people who are very powerful who I will never name, because I want to be able to work in this town.

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.

But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.