Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.

I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.

He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.

I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.

I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.

I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.