Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

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.

When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.