The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.