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!

Each book first begins with a little idea.

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!

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.

Humans are at their best when alleviating the suffering of another living thing.

Depression is my bestfriend

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

To me, style is like your fingerprint. Nobody else has it.

There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it?

Congress: America's only true criminal class.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don't even realize you're doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, 'What's wrong today? You losing it?