Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.

It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set in an interior world: not inside the house but inside the mind and body of writer and reader.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

Typography exists to honor content.

Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.