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" Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment. "

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" Kids are so shrewd. "

" I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. "

" I was miserable as a kid. "

" There's so much more to a book than just the reading. "

" I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. "

" 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. "

" I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. "

" I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist. "

" Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them. "

" I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be. "

" The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been. "

" Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. "

" That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father? "

" My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. "

" I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person. "

" Kids lead a very private life. "

" Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong. "

" Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid. "

" My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. "

" You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. "

" I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother. "

" I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? "

" I feel extremely vulnerable. "

" I'm not afraid of death. "

" Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean. "

" When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. "

" I hate people. "

" I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! "

" I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable. "

" I'm sick of 'Wild Things.' "