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" You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. "

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" 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. "

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

" I have a good life. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" You don't want to do something that's all terrifying. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that. "

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

" I don't need faith. "

" It's no fun being lonely. "

" 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 totally crazy, I know that. "

" My father belonged to a Jewish social club. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a religious person. "

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" We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. "