Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.

Typography exists to honor content.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

By all means break the rules.

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

The buck stops here.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part, Is not more fondly dear.

That kind of natural understanding doesn't develop naturally

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

The coolest thing is when you don’t care about being cool anymore. Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac - that’s what really sums up style for me.

Anything dead coming back to life hurts.