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

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

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.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

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

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a demarcation. 'Oh you mustn't tell them that. You mustn't tell them that.' You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it's true. If it's true you tell them.