To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

God, I had great people in my life.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.