The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress; smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motorman’s glove.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.