There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

It is not so much about fighting against the ego

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.

There can be no darkness where I provide the light.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.

Love spends his all, and still hath store.

The show is in the casting. Choose the right people.