"Culturally everything was mixed, you see, and beyond all question of conscious choices there was a level where you were claimed by emotion and movement and moods which you couldn't put into words." "That Same Pain, That Same Pleasure: An Interview." p. 11

"I learned very early that in the realm of the imagination all people and their ambitions and interests could meet." "That Same Pain, That Same Pleasure: An Interview." p. 12

"...I think that the mixture of the marvelous and the terrible is a basic condition of human life and that the persistence of human ideals represents the marvelous pulling itself up out of the chaos of the universe. In the fairy tale, beauty must be awakened by the beast, the beastly man can only regain his humanity through love." "That Same Pain, That Same Pleasure: An Interview." p. 20

"Color prejudice springs not from the stereotype alone, but...