I have a great office.

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?

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up.

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.