"We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest."

"My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too."

"I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact."

"My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!"

"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."

"I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience."

"Audiences want to see intelligent movies."

"The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity."