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

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.

We’ve educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren’t. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they’re really protecting themselves. Besides, you can’t protect children. They know everything.

I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

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

Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.