My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.

It is something that I always found quite unfair: wondering why the Jews never rebelled when deported.

You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

I was convinced that adults would realize more what they are capable of doing if it's shown through children's eyes.

Don't obey if your heart tells you the order is wrong.

Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.

Its the map of my childhood, my sadness, my Eden, my hell and home. when I look at it now, my heart swells with gratitude, then shrinks with disgust.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

They [the US] get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper.

There was a point a few years ago where I realized I started out playing boys on camera and stage, and then I translated that to playing boys in animated shows. I was like, "Whoa, this is intense."

When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce.

Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that direction. That caused me a lot of problems.