I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.

All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

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