Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

Creativity's about ownership.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

The PCT would lead me to an otherworld, through the sadness I felt here, out of it.

Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.

I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

A long term goal is to encourage students to start doing concerts in which I or the other artists will come back at the end of the school year to see their concerts.

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.