If you can announce the Higgs Boson in Comic Sans, clearly anybody can do anything.

Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything.

No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it.

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE.

If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.

If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.

Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at.

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

The problem contains the solution.

Break open your heart so that I may enter it.

I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

Being on the road with rock, its pretty much 90 percent guys.

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.