I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.