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.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen.