Dreaming or awake we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it meaning I have an urge to wear it.

In most people's vocabularies design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden mysterious realm on the contrary it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

My fear was not of death itself but a death without meaning.