Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

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

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.

I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words long. Only when the text is finished ... do I begin the pictures.

We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.