One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.

We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.

Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.

[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.