I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

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.

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

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.

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."(King Pelles the Sure)

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?

I talk to God and make deals with him every time I gamble. Otherwise, I leave him alone.

If you are an executioner, don't expect to have a friend closer than a gallows!

God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.