"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.”

“A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.”

“Do what you're afraid to do.”

“My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.”

“When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last days of radio and the first days of television. And Spike Jones. And the Marx Brothers. They represented anarchy. They took things that were nice and decent and proper, and they tore them to shreds. That attracted me.”

“I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.”

“Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.”

“The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour.”

“The soul is healed by being with children.”