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.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.