People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.