My goal is to create a book where the entire book-text, pictures, shape of book-work together to create the theme. The placement of images and text on the page is crucial for me.

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

Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.

God cannot remember forgiven sins.

a daughter shouldnot have to beg her fatherfor a relationship

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

Books, like landscapes, leave their marks in us. (...) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates.

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true. In that sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.