And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

I became a set designer for opera.

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

I'm totally crazy, I know that.

There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.