Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.

Good design means as little design as possible.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

For friendship I have nobody else except the volcano.

I know already that I can survive it. That's the sorrow of it all. That whatever comes I'll survive it. I mean, even if the worst were to be true, would it really be the worst?

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.

I didn't want to say anything. I liked Star Wars when I was ten.

The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before?

What a testing of character adversity is.

There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.

As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.

I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.