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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too.
I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.
Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.
Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!
All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.
We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.
Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.
You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.
Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.
I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.
My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.
I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.
Each month is gay, Each season nice, When eating Chicken soup With rice
I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all.
I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen.
Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.
My brother, who was older, was the gifted one, much more talented than I.
I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.
What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.
As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?
Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.
I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.
I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.