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

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.

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

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 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.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.

I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.

Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.

Meeting specifications is not enough.