when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.