I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

I've always been a morning person, and what I don't get done in the morning I really don't get done at all.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give you that shiver. That, "yes, it's never been said quite that way before."

I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.

Forgiveness is accepting someone's faults with love and kindness.

I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

Feminism without femininity is a sham.

I'd like a nice piece of salmon that's not too pink inside and yet isn't too dry or crisp either.

Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.

I'm not one of those actors that hates press and gets really groan-y about it - I always like talking about films.

Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.