Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw.

I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.

Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.

Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.

Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.