The most relevant misadventure that I had, as a kid, is when I remember being pretty convinced that leprechauns were real and that I was going to catch one.

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.

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!

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.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.

He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

Eternity. Isn't that word terrifying?

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

I don't think secrets are a bad thing. I think there's this idea that everything needs to be transparent in order for it to be free.

Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.