It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

Pain is life. Life is pain.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

One dream, will suffice a thousand nightmares.

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

Send me money, send me green, and Heaven you will meet. Make your contribution and you'll get a better seat.

One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.