"Maybe the only good thing about death is that you never have to relive it. You never have to remember the pain."

“If I could grow wings, I could fly. Only people can't grow wings," he say's. "Real or not real?" "Real," I say. "But people don't need wings to survive." "Mockingjays do.”

“As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.”

“Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.”

“My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all," "I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery. I was all of 16 when I had my first guitar lesson with Joe. But I never focused on being a bebop player. I loved the harmony, rhythm and phrasing, but I wanted to apply them to my own concept and sound.”

“I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.”

“I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.”

“I had to be careful. A mistake I made when I submitted ideas initially was that one of them was too much like Elephant and Piggie, thinking that was what it needed to be. That's not what Mo was looking for. But I did definitely keep them in the back of my mind. It was tricky. Like Mo Willems was saying, it had to be something that Elephant and Piggie would like to read, yet we shouldn't make anything that was too much like Elephant and Piggie, because why would you want to do that?”

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“I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.”

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