You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. The war took care of that for me. You know, I was brought up strictly kosher, but I - it made no sense to me. It made no sense to me what was happening. So nothing of it means anything to me. Nothing. Except these few little trivial things that are related to being Jewish. ... You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.