"For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design."

“Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.”

“I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.”

“I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?”

“There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.”

“There is no protection against the kinds of influences that are loose in a society that tolerates pornography.”

“What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page thats really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.”

Source : "Henry Selick on his 'medium dark' stop-motion movie for Disney" by Rebecca Keegan, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 27, 2012.

“With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.”

“Militant homosexuals, pro-abortionists, occultists, New Agers, pornographers, radical feminists, atheists, paganists and a whole collection of angry anti-Christian groups are all coming out of their closets and onto the battlefield. Their common denominator is a hatred for Christianity and for any expression of traditional values.”

Source : Carman Walker, Carman, Walter Walker (1994). “Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God”, Chordant Distribution