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

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores.

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

If you intend to die, you can do anything.

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.