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

Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.