There Must Be More To Life Than

From Their Earliest Years Children Live On Familiar Terms With Disrupting Emotions, Fear And Anxiety Are An Intrinsic Part Of Their Everyday Lives, They Continually Cope With Frustrations As Best They Can. And It Is Through Fantasy That Children Achieve Catharsis. It Is The Best Means They Have For Taming Wild Things.

I Adored Mickey Mouse When I Was A Child. He Was The Emblem Of Happiness And Funniness.

You Cannot Write For Children They're Much Too Complicated. You Can Only Write Books That Are Of Interest To Them.

I Cry A Lot Because I Miss People. They Die And I Can't Stop Them. They Leave Me And I Love Them More.

Then One Day My Sister Abandoned Me At The 1939 World's Fair, And That Incident Is The Essence Of In The Night Kitchen. I Was Standing There With Hundreds Of Other People Waving Back At The Little Midgets Dressed Like Bakers When I Turned Around And My Sister Was Gone! The Next Thing I Know I'm Screaming And Crying And Policemen Are Taking Me To A Big Place With Tons Of Kids Who Had All Been Abandoned Like Me. At Least I Was Old Enough To Give Them A Name And An Address.