Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was born.

We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.

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.

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.