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

I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.

I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my window, sketching neighborhood children at play. I sketched and listened, and those notebooks became the fertile field of my work later on. There is not a book I have written or a picture I have drawn that does not, in some way, owe them its existence.

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

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.

I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.

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