Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.

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

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.

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