When I And The Other Young Artists Were Working In Comics, Our WORK Carried With It A PARTICULARLY American Slant. After All, We Were Americans Drawing And Writing About THINGS That Touched Us. As It Turned Out, The Early Work Was, You Might Say, A Comic Book Version Of Jazz.

The Sudden APPEARANCE Of Mushrooms After A Summer RAIN Is One Of The More Impressive Spectacles Of The PLANT WORLD.

A JOURNEY Is A Person In Itself; No TWO Are Alike. And All Plans, Safeguards, Policing, And Coercion Are Fruitless. We FIND That After YEARS Of Struggle That We Do Not Take A TRIP; A Trip Takes Us.

It's Interesting - A Lot Of What You Accomplish In Your Lifetime Either As An Individual Or As A Company Is DETERMINED By Other People. I Mean, You Can Do Interview After Interview And Defend A Point Of View, But More OFTEN Than Not, The Collective KIND Of Opinion Will Be The One Viewed Historically And TAKEN As Gospel.

We Set Out With Nothing But MUSIC As Our Dream, But We Didn't Know Where We Were Going, Whether We Were Going Uphill Or Downhill, Or As We Took A Break After Becoming TIRED, Whether AROUND The Corner There Was A Paradise Or A Pitfall. That's How We STARTED.

I Came In During The ERA Of Models, Motion CONTROL, And Optical Printers. ILM Had Just STARTED Its Own Computer Graphics DIVISION, After The Lucasfilm Computer Division Had Been Sold Off And BECAME Pixar.

Life Is A Rotten LOTTERY. I've Had A PRETTY Amazing Life, A Good Life, And GOD Knows I'm Thankful, But I Do Believe That After 30, STOP Whining! EVERYBODY's Dealt A Hand, And It's Not Fair What You Get. But You've Got To Deal With It.

I Am A Teacher. It's How I Define Myself. A GOOD Teacher Isn't SOMEONE Who GIVES The Answers Out To Their KIDS But Is Understanding Of Needs And Challenges And Gives Tools To Help Other PEOPLE Succeed. That's The Way I See Myself, So Whatever It Is That I Will Do Eventually After Politics, It'll Have To Do A Lot With Teaching.

Dwight Eisenhower Presented A Face Of America That Was Heroic And Resolute; Ronald Reagan Represented A RETURN To Confidence And GLAMOUR After The Weary Carter YEARS.

To Be SMART On Crime, We Should Not Be In A Position Of CONSTANTLY REACTING To Crime After It HAPPENS. We Should Be Looking At PREVENTING Crime Before It Happens.