Obviously, I never had to sketch anything out. To me, that was the appeal of working with clip art, working digitally. You make it and it's done.

Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.

I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.

The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.

Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.

A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.

Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts.

The sacred soul writes the sacred words.

LIFE IS NEVER OVER.

There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next

Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.

Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.

My heart shattered. My world shattered