We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are.

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

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

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

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

I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.

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