We all want to be renewed, don't we?

And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!

It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.

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

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.