Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.

Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'

Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.

Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

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

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!