"Now, because of this big backdrop that we've given ourselves, these little personal, human details take on a whole new context and give us opportunities for comedy."

“A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.”

“The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.”

Source : "Locating Loss with Oliver Jeffers". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 20, 2014.

“You can't sell anything if you can't tell anything.”

“Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.”

“Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.”

Source : Sir Samuel Garth, Thomas Tickell (1822). “The Poems of Garth, and Tickell”, p.54

“Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.”

“Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.”

Source : "Ethiopia proves there can be life after death" by Jonathan Dimbleby, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2002.

“He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.”