Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing. David Carson

"Les films ont le pouvoir de capturer les rêves. Georges Méliès.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. David Carson.

Dans la vie on ne fait pas ce que l'on veut mais on est responsable de ce que l'on est. Jean-Paul Sartre

La différence qu'il y a entre les oiseaux et les hommes politiques, c'est que de temps en temps les oiseaux s'arrêtent de voler ! -Coluche

Les jaloux sont comme les fous et les ivrognes, ils ne se rendent jamais compte de leurs souffrances. La jalousie provient d'un manque de confiance non pas envers l'autre, mais envers soi-même. Eugéne Cloutier

La vie sans musique est tout simplement une erreur, une fatigue, un exil. -Friedrich Nietzsche

“Il n’y a que les esprits légers pour ne pas juger sur les apparences. Le vrai mystère du monde est le visible, et non l’invisible.” -Oscar Wilde. Le portrait de Dorian Gray.

“N’importe qui peut sympathiser avec les souffrances d’un ami. Sympathiser avec ses succès exige une nature très délicate.” -Oscar Wilde

“Je choisis mes amis pour leur bonne présentation, mes connaissances pour leur bon caractère et mes ennemis pour leur bonne intelligence. Un homme ne peut être trop soigneux dans le choix de ses ennemis.” -Oscar Wilde Le portrait de Dorian Gray

“Une personne c’est de la compagnie, deux c’est la foule, trois c’est une réception.” -Andy Warhol

“La notoriété, c’est comme de manger des cacahuètes : quand on commence, on ne peut plus s’arrêter.” -Andy Warhol

“Un artiste est une personne qui crée des choses dont les gens n’ont pas besoin mais, pour une raison quelconque, il pense que ce serait une bonne idée de leur apporter.” -Andy Warhol

I'm really open to everything.

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.

The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.

Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public.

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

When you're playing a character, I think it's always better not to judge that character.

My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.

I love lipbalms in general; they're very important!

When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of state funding.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I'll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.

The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.

Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.

I am sure I ought not to be, but I have great reason to tremble lest Satan and my own wicked heart get the better of me. It is no easy matter to fight such enemies as these, but with Christ strengthening me, I know I shall come off more than a conquerer.

I joined a writing class at a nearby community center, where I was the youngest participant by about 40 years. Once a week, I'd funnel down a staircase and join the dozen retirees crowded in folding chairs around a table to discuss one another's stories.

Sometimes bliss can only be found in the serenity of darkness.

Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.