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

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.