The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.

I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive.

I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.