I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll always just be alone.

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

I'm heavily influenced by Edward Ardizzone, how he has people talking in little speech bubbles. I love those. And also Edward Gorey. Those are two of my favorite people.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.

I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll always just be alone.