I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.

Want to help others? Be yourself. You’ll inspire others to muster the courage to be themselves as well.

Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.

As hipster chicks age, and their skin starts to sag, tramp stamps sink below waistbands, like the sun slipping into the sea.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.

The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.