I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then I suddenly realized I did.

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

Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.

I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.

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.

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.

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.