Good design is not an applied veneer.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

The most beautiful curve is a rising sales graph.

It's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate.

The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and just as easy to repair. ...It also sells best and looks good.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

Ugliness does not sell.

Your first words will not only shape your first impression, they can create amazing connections, lead you to your dream job, or help you discover a new best friend—or accomplish exactly the opposite.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish poems to my "crappy poems" file.

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.

I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus.

You know the disease, you know the remedy, only have faith.