I've always loved 'Alice,' and I've always loved Lewis Carroll. I love his kind of tone and his intelligence.

You always want to aim high.

If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again.

I remember watching 'The Muppet Show' in the '70s. I was six or seven, and my dad watched it with me, and my grandparents watched it with me, and we're all laughing throughout, but I think we were probably laughing at different things.

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.

One of the most delightful parts of being a writer is connecting with people via social media. I devote ten minutes out of every writing hour to Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and other sites. I don't use assistants for that. It's me and all of my friends, fans, readers, and colleagues on the crazyboat.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.