I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set up a room in the house to be like a hospital room. Eugene died, and then I had bypass surgery. I was doing the book to stay sane while all this was going on.

I became a set designer for opera.

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are.

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

We're animals. We're violent.