Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.