Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.
I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.
Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.
I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.