Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

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

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words long. Only when the text is finished ... do I begin the pictures.

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

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.