Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language.

Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

A lot of the raccoons we're getting are coming out of people's attics. Mom raccoons think it's a nice quiet, dark place to raise their babies.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

We can't lose sight of the cupboard. This year, we were able to sign some players early. But you can't lose sight of filling the cupboard with players.

I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some of his - darkness of his tales.