There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress; smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motorman’s glove.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.