I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

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 it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.

I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of [writing] something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.