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

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

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

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" My parents were very indiscrete. "

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" I stress character, character, character. "

" Yes, there have to be places for safe wonderful stories. "

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

" 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'm sick of 'Wild Things.' "

" I'm a lucky buck. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm totally crazy, I know that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously. "

" I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning. "

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

" 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. "

" A book is a book is a book. "

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

" I'm not afraid of death. "

" All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew. "

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