The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.

I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

Art has always been my salvation.

We all want to be renewed, don't we?

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