I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.

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

Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!

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.

Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality