Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world. |

Can you not see that the task is your task - yours to dream, yours to resolve, yours to execute? |

Fascism is capitalism plus murder. |

It is impossible to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding. |

To repress what makes us unique is to artificially constrain all the potential we have to offer. |

In the midst of winter, I found in me an invincible summer. |

We are born makers. We move what we’re learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands. |

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change. |

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. |

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. |

Lucidity is the wound closest to the sun. |

I believe in the magic and authority of words. |

I loved you head over handles like my first bicycle accident — before the mouthful of gravel and blood, I swore we were flying. |

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. |

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. |

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. |

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words... |

As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar. |

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse. |

Who, being loved, is poor ? |

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. |

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole. |

There’s the whole Buddhist thing about the essence of a bowl being its emptiness—that’s why it’s useful. Its emptiness allows it to hold something. I guess that means that design must talk about something else. If you make design about design, you’re just stacking bowls, and that’s not what bowls are for. |

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence. |