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

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" 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 therapies went on forever. "

" Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. "

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

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

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" 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. "

" Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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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. "

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

" 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've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. "

" 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. "

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

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

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