Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And...
To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do....
What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children for how...
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff I love classical...
I mean being a child was being a child was being a creature without power...
My father could be very witty even if the humor was always on the darker...
I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if...
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't...
My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and...
Oh I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness...
I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.
I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I...
I don't need faith.
I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a...
As a kid all I thought about was death.
The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
I'm not afraid of death.
When I did 'Bumble-ardy ' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene my...
As a kid all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of...
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually something goes wrong.
