In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It's a relief.

By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.

If you want to visualize something in its fullness you have to look at every perspective and every angle, and that means - sometimes uncomfortably - looking at things you don't want to look at.

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

It's enjoyable to just drink in an image. It's effortless. That struck me as an interesting way of looking at it: I do all the grunt work so you can enjoy.

I think it's good practice, if you're a writer, or anyone who's shaping narrative, to be flexible and open with the direction of the narrative.

I'm happy to provide that service. But that's the power of it. A good infographic that's been really worked on looks simple and easy, but it actually required a lot of processing.

I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects.

Sometimes the data has a sense of a structure within it, especially if I'm looking at networks or relationships, which generally lend themselves to a certain style.

I hope suffering don't exist.

I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn’t get him anything other than a living.

[I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

Rock star, flier than an ostrich...

With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.

It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.