Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
From Maurice Sendak
You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too.
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.
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 only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?
I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.
I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
I became a set designer for opera.
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.
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