When you're quite young, your imagination's quite free.

People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

No means yes in grasshopper language.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!

All my friends got dogs and cats for Christmas, and I got a starfish called Roy. I used to take him down to the park on a lead.

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

Never try and go on a solo mission on your own.

I've had a really weird day, some joker threw bamboo in the penguin enclosure. They all vaulted out. It was a nightmare, it took me all morning to get them back in.

I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.

I've got it all in here ultra violets, flying saucers, strawberry bootlace come on get involved.

Faith is evidence unseen and never seen, trust is gained from evidence seen and understood.

There are times when the truth can only show you an illusion.

I'm not a fruity girl. I don't like licorice. I'm chocolate all the way.

Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't

There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Learning, pondering, searching, and memorizing scriptures is like filling a filing cabinet with friends, values, and truths that can be called upon anytime, anywhere in the world.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.