If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.

I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.

I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!

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.

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.