There must be more to life than having everything.

All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw.

There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

It's no fun being lonely.

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.