We're animals. We're violent.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

And the walls became the world all around.

There must be more to life than having everything.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!

religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

I wanted to give the house back to the parents.

It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?

Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.