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" I feel like I don't have a lot of time left. "

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" I didn't have much confidence in myself... never. "

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

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

" A book is a book is a book. "

" We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do. "

" If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up. "

" My parents were very indiscrete. "

" I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep. "

" 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. "

" It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive. "

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

" I was miserable as a kid. "

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

" I stress character, character, character. "

" I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think. "

" There must be more to life than having everything. "

" I'm not afraid of death. "

" Kids lead a very private life. "

" I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young. "

" You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. "

" I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy. "

" I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better. "

" I'm not obsessed with angels but I do adore angels. "

" I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did. "

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