[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.

Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God

You can do things. Do you know this?Do you believe it?You should.It’s true.You can do great things.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

There's no other like Leo.

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

I’m cool with nothing cause even nothing is something

I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's.

It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.

All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.