The more you have seen, the larger your cognitive map, the more you can imagine.

I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.

June will break your heart. I can see it already. She'll shatter you into a million pieces.

I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

Only bad writers think they're good.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.

There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.

I laugh, that there's a certain kind of cyclical nature to life and that I don't have to worry because whatever isn't there right now, it's coming back again.