My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!

As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.

I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming.

In terms of creative engagement, I just love being able to produce, produce, produce. You don't always get it perfect, but it has much more of an improvisational element, and you learn.

Gravity Falls is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.

I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.

A sibling is a friend for life, but they are a friend for life that you are forced to have. And like anything that you are forced to do, occasionally people will drive you crazy.

Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere.

Gravity Falls has transformed the children of America into an army of Dippers. I couldn't be more proud!

You can look at a finale as chance to make an impact or a statement, to shock people or shoot a big cannon and make a loud noise.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal. I grew up in the '90s, which is when The X-Files was at its zenith.

Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?”“That is the only time a man can be brave,

Don't just conform

When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free.

Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.

A boyfriend has so much to do with a woman blossoming.

For as many people as I quote-unquote lost respect from, I gained respect from a lot more. I know that's a fact.

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

What gets measured, gets done. And what gets recognized gets done again, and even better.

Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.