You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.

One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

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.