Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

There must be something to think about at the end.

If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson

There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.