If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

I am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.

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.

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.

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

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

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.