I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.

I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

When you've been hurt by someone you love like he has, why would you ever seek love out? Why would you risk being hurt again?

In the days approaching Christmas, she always reminds me of the previous year: 'Jane crocheted you an entire poncho, and all you gave her was a bone-shaped beach stone.

You never know if they like you for who you are or what you are. Would he love me or the money?

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

The world is changing isn't it? So you're not allowed to pray before a football game. I thought it was horrible.

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

He's so small, he's a waste of skin.

Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.

Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.

I'm Sinatra, I'm Frank Sinatra in disguise.