When I was a kid I was very particular. I was actually beyond particular. I would iron my money and spray it with Polo cologne.

When I lace my shoes I can't stand when they are twisted and dirty. It just looks sloppy. Even if it's a new pair of Chuck Taylors and the laces are all twisted it looks like you don't care.

As a child there was no place for adventure or experimentation. I guess that kind of freedom started in high school with punk rock. That's what enlightened me to not being afraid to express myself.

I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it.

I thought the Made in America men's wear push was a big revolution in terms of smaller companies taking charge, but it seems like it's gotten out of control.

There are too many brands. You can start your own brand from your bedroom. It's a good thing and a bad thing.

There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!

Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.

I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back.

The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.

[Takashi] Murakami, do you think he is spiritual? He is more like de-spiritualized. De-spiritualized might be the most contemporary aspect of the human mind.

The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.

Pain is not an evolutionary error.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.