Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.

I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.

You are what you are seen to be.

The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not.

They [letters] are my friends Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever - girls' bottoms - I get kicks out of looking at type.

Inher­ent qual­ity is part of absolute qual­ity and with­out it things will appear shoddy. The users may not know why, but they always sense it.

The materials shape your idea.

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.

Earth laughs in flowers.

In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.

Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.

I've made some mistakes before.

I was actually a huge tomboy growing up.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.

Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.

I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do that, the home run comes.