Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.