“I was working out the schedule for Into the Woods, and I sat Meryl [Streep] down. I said, ‘Meryl, I’m thinking that I’ll bring in the cast, we’ll work for about three weeks, and then we’ll have you come in, and then we’ll...
“When I’m on airplanes and every now and then I’ll see people reading one of my books, whenever they stop, they stop and they put it in the seat back in front of them. They close their eyes. I want to walk up to him and shake him and say, why did you...
“I was doing an interview for the Total Television book, interviewing this voice artist named Bradley Bulky who did the voice of Chumley the Walrus on Tennessee Tuxedo. And he answers the phone, he goes, “Hello!” You know, and he sounds just like...
“Another comedian friend of mine, every year around his birthday, he would rent out a roller skate rink and have an open bar. And it was a disaster, as you would imagine, because its drunk people on wheels. It was like me and celebrities. And you’d just be...
“So when we are seen, expressed, and healed through our stories, we give that gift to the world. We move from giving the gift to the world to being the gift because we show others that they can be seen, expressed, and healed. And that changes us from a bunch of...
“I’m attracted to stories about problems created by adults that children have to deal with…problems not of their own making. Children didn’t create war. You don’t go into foster care because of something you did, it’s because of...
