The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.

Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to you.

Don't confuse legibility with communication.

Just because something is legible doesn't mean it communicates...

Never mistake legibility for communication.

You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.

you'd take one look at me and whole pieces of the earth would break off and fall away finally leaving me alone with you.

Folks fall down all the time.. The key is to get back up ASAP

Literature is my utopia.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that.

I don't think that it is necessary to rethink curricular goals. But it is certainly worth thinking about whether these goals can be reached in multiple ways.

Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.