I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

You can't argue with Results, stop talking and Prove with Results

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

He: I have this crazy yearning in my heart, to make you mine.She: Sure, go ahead and make me your bad habit!

It took me a lifetime.

I keep my sisters on speed dial.

I been the same dude my whole life.

All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.

The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.

I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything.

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).