Each book first begins with a little idea.

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

I have been drawing all my life.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

Right and wrong matters little when survival matters most.

The clouds wept when my heart sand a song of sorrow

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

Life without music is no life at all.

I never work hard when I am working; I only work hard when I am not working.

I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person.

The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king

I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.