It will always take a certain audacity to write or to make art of any kind.

Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

There has to be the right pacing of images to tell the story. I'm always stunned at how little you can put in.

Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.