I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them. ... people have a lot on their minds, however trivial, and if you're simply willing to sit there like a sack of dirt and let them yammer, they will tell it to you.