I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

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

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

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

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.