We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.

The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.

I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.