If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

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

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.