"Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television."

"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."

"At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design."

"At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing."

"Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word."

"It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write."

"The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction."

"In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc."