It would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could feel like they were going to school also.

I don't like things to be static when I'm working.

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

It's one of my favorite times of day. I'll have an array of notes, things that I want to think about. Something will start to take shape, and I'll play around with it. It's not usually an intense time. It's sort of a playful time. But it's when some really good thoughts arise.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.