I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.

Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.

And the walls became the world all around.

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

I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.

Kids lead a very private life.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.