I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.