In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Design is everything. Everything!

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

Everything is design. Everything!

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

The more people I am able to help, the more people are willing to help others. The more followers we have, the closer we are to a perfect world.

Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.

Platforms are established because of the way the Lord used someone.

Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.