Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.

Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

It will always take a certain audacity to write or to make art of any kind.

I get skinnier if I'm very busy.

For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them.