I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

Poetry is life distilled.

Evening and morning and at noon will I pray.

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

God's reason for creating Adam was the desire to reproduce himself.

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.