Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm not a child educator; I'm just a former child.

The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.

.... When you have no voice, you don't exist

Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.

They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing, " Genevieve worried. "What would I tell them?""Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl, " said Bloom.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

The Almighty has His own purposes.

Being a child is in itself a profession.

Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.

I've been married to my wife for 60 years but it feels just like yesterday, and you know what a bloody awful day yesterday was.

The average call me obsessed, the successful call me for advice.

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.