The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Being the everyman in the writing room helps a lot: you have to be a real collaborator and selfless, and not have ego when you walk in there. That's the antithesis of the artist mentality.

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.