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

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" 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. "

" I'm not a religious person. "

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" I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. "

" I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child. "

" In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. "

" I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children. "

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

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

" I'm not afraid of death. "

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

" I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role. "

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

" There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books. "

" I would infinitely prefer a daughter. "

" My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. "

" What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. "

" There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. "

" I became a set designer for opera. "

" My work is not great, but it's respectable. "

" My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health. "

" Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. "

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

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

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

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

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

" My father belonged to a Jewish social club. "

" My parents were very indiscrete. "