"When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer."

“Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Hell is the impossibility of reason.”

Source : Oliver Stone, Richard Boyle (1987). “Oliver Stone's Platoon & Salvador”, Vintage

“I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com

“Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.”

“There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.”

“I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.”

“There's a song that wants to sing itself through us. We just got to be available. Maybe the song that is to be sung through us is the most beautiful requiem for an irreplaceable planet or maybe it's a song of joyous rebirth as we create a new culture that doesn't destroy its world. But in any case, there's absolutely no excuse for our making our passionate love for our world dependent on what we think of its degree of health, whether we think it's going to go on forever. Those are just thoughts anyway. But this moment you're alive, so you can just dial up the magic of that at any time.”

Source : "A Wild Love for the World". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. September 16, 2010.

“Unfortunately, there's a big, bad new bully threatening ocean animals, climate change. We might save fish only to have them starve because of climate change. It seems like the problems just won't stop. That's what got me to quit my cushy University job and take a big pay cut to work on conservation.”

Source : Source: www.treehugger.com