Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.

Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.

Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.