There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

I'm bad at letting go of things.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.