With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.

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.

The world exists to end up in a book.

Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.

To find eternal peace, love everyone as if they are your beloved children.

Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.

I spend a lot of time in American Apparel.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house!

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in.

I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.