Typography Is To Literature As Musical Performance

Typography Is To Literature As Musical Performance Is To Composition: An Essential Act Of Interpretation, Full Of Endless Opportunities For Insight Or Obtuseness.

Wings Are A Constraint That Makes It Possible To Fly.

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 Choice Of Arbitrary Quantities.

With Type As With Philosophy, Music And Food, It Is Better To Have A Little Of The Best Than To Be Swamped With The Derivative, The Careless, The Routine.

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 Claim That Myths Are Invented To Give Sanction To Human Predilections And Institutions... These Are Ways Of Trivializing A Mode Of Thought That Has Served Humanity Well For A Very Long Time.