It's no fun being lonely.

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.

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

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.