I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.

I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.

No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward.

It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Geometry is the most complete science.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

Courage never to submit of yield.

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.