Every word, every character in a picture book must count.
Jack, you've debauched my sloth.
Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.
. . . looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat. ' 'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jack; it will do him no harm, at all. His digestive processes--
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.
For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.
After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.
Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful.
I don't think anyone loses by trying to be loyal to their dreams.
I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.
You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit.