Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas. ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are.

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

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores.