I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones.

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.