The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.

Read to your bunny often and your bunny will read to you.

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times

The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.

I miss THE WALLFLOWERS. Great band. Wrote my first Fan letter to them. No response.

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.

Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.

A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more.

Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.