William Blake Really Is Important, My Cornerstone.

I Know There Are Supposedly Happy People In This World. I Never Believed It, But I Take It For Granted. God Knows, They're All On Television.

I Never Set Out To Write Books For Children. I Don't Have A Feeling That I'm Gonna Save Children Or My Life Is Devoted.

I Want To Be Free Again. I Want To Be Free Like When I Was A Kid, Working With My Brother And Making Toy Airplanes And A Whole Model Of The World's Fair In 1939 Out Of Wax.

One Of The Few Graces Of Getting Old - And God Knows There Are Few Graces - Is That If You've Worked Hard And Kept Your Nose To The Grindstone, Something Happens: The Body Gets Old But The Creative Mechanism Is Refreshed, Smoothed And Oiled And Honed. That Is The Grace. That Is What's Happening To Me.

I Wanted To Be Acknowledged As An Artist, Not Just Some Kiddie-book Artist.