Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.

Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.

Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.

Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.

I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.

I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models.

Kevin Cornell and I have worked together a bunch.

I wasn’t sure how I felt about there being another me sharing space in the universe. Would I even like myself?

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

I want to make all Europe and America know it - I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require - the restoration of our domestic parliament.

It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.

Follow your gut and your heart. You'll almost always make the right choice.

How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?

In business, as in life, all that matters is that you do something positive.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.