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There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.
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I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?
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Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.
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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.
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I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?
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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.
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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.
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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.
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I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
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I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.
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I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
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Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.
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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.
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I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.
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People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.
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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.
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When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.
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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
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We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.
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