To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.
I’m gay. I just didn’t think it was anybody’s business.
Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!
The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.
To get a child’s trust – you may know or not – is a very hard thing to do. They’re so used to not believing adults – because adults tell tales and lies all the time.
It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. I have nothing now but praise for my life.
I would infinitely prefer a daughter.
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.
There’s a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.
Each month is gay, Each season nice, When eating Chicken soup With rice.
Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.
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.
I don’t know how to write a children’s book.
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
I became a set designer for opera.
The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood – the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don’t see.
I have this idiot name tag which says ‘controversial.’