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

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

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.

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.

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

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

[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.