The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.

Some folks get nauseous, have body cramping -- they will get lightheaded and get a sense of fatigue.

It seems after the disaster many good things and blessings happen,.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

I have a weird thing - if I can't see where all the walls in my house are, I get a little bit freaked out. I think New York has Stockholm Syndrome'd my sense of space and what a house should be.

It made me realize that Beatrice had changed

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.

I'm very competitive but in a very nice way

If you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

Maybe that’s what love meant, both people thinking they were the lucky one.

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.