If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates poss….

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time..

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..

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing t….

My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as I can tell - because it's part of….

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly..

The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto a cosmological scrim; the….

In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that are fundamentally ab….

In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must re….

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight o….

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..

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 choi….

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

Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge, and one look s….

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetr….

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast….

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutto….

If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and ther….

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre..

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form..

In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentence….