I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time.

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.