All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw.

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

And [he] sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot

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

As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child; dream of books, make books and collect books.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.