Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.

Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.

I'm totally crazy, I know that.

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.