Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.

The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.

I don't see any reason to let law interfere with justice around here. We never did before.

I answered the call to heal before I answered the call of duty to my country. My job is to help and heal, not to destroy.

This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'We hate you, please die.'

I'm a pretty intense person. And I don't know if intense is fun. I put myself through the wringer. That's just how I work.

You'll always make mistakes and you'll miss the mark sometimes. That's inevitably going to happen, because the best people in the world make mistakes - even people who are brilliant.

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.

"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

Expand your references, and you'll immediately expand your life.