"Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on."

"If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young."

"I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions."

"Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously."

"As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action."

"I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally."

"The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again."

"I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent."