I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.