I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

Overcoming abuse doesn't just happen, It takes positive steps everyday. Let today be the day you start to move forward.

I can't retire from life. I love life too much and I cannot wait to start the day.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

We're beginning the age in which machines attached to our bodies will make us stronger and more efficient.

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me.