I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it

We all want to be renewed, don't we?

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.

I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.

All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.