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.

I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped — when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.

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

If you intend to die, you can do anything.

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.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

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