To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

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

I really don't like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous. It's too crazy.

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

When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.