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.

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

A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.

Life is wonderful beautiful journey. Every episode of my life is like a dream, and I am at peace and happy with what life has given me.

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

The biggest thing is not to lose your confidence and realize you've got to work through those mistakes to yourself a chance to improve.

In fact Plotinus thought not only that soul in general is eternal so that you always have soul, but he thought that each person's soul is eternal.

Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.