An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.

The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

Motivate yourself by failure, to achieve bigger things than you thought possible at first.

... you're never alone if you've got a book for company.

Keep digging, Flynn. Six feet makes a grave.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose!

I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

Luck is one of the most important things in the world and really has a role to play in everything, and in marriage, I've been lucky enough to be married to the same girl for all these years.

I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.

Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.

I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.