My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.

Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late.