Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.

Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to survive.

You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.

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.

I don't know how to write a children's book.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

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