I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. The Awful Aunty took me 10 days.

One of the troubles with signings is that you are surrounded by children, and some of them have got colds.

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Time & distance does wonders for healing & rejuvenating your soul.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.