We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless.

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry.

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.

My errors were more fertile than I ever imagined.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Solitude is an opportunity to arrest time and convert it into products.

I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

It was probably the biggest accomplishment of my life.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

We want you to express your point of view but without violence.