The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')

...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender To touch, her being só slender,

Arise and shine bright.

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.

Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate the art and culture much more because of him.

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

But I knew Nick. He was too ugly to die.