It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

God knows, I haven't always been successful.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.