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"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
"Home is not a place, it's a feeling."
"I couldn’t be in a play because plays are not real life and they are full of people doing things that don’t make sense."
You get towards the end of life—no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life.
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.
Drawing for children is about capturing the essence, not the detail.
The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but from the small, quiet moments that reveal our shared humanity.
"Illustrations should whisper secrets to the reader, not shout the obvious."
The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong.
The most beautiful things in life are not things, but moments.
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.
I’m not a theorist. I’m not an intellectual. I go by my nose.
"I am a writer, not a speaker."
"I write against something, not for something."
Hope is not an emotion, but a choice.
True courage is not the absence of fear, but moving forward despite it.
Art is not about escaping reality, but about understanding it more deeply.