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.

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.

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.

I am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.

I have my priorities and I know my purpose. I do not Praise God because of my pain but I praise Him because of what the pain is producing.

But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.

I love it when dogs yawn. Especially when it's in the middle of another dog's speech.

You'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it; I find it trivial and banal and boring.

Never put yourself in a position that will put yourself at risk if you make the wrong decision. We spent cash on everything. It's fashionable to make 'bet the company' decisions, but don't do it.

I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.

Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.