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.

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 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.

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

But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

I look forward to a life partner who can look after me and respect me.

Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect harmonyof the body, senses, mind and intellect, reason, consciousness and self. When all these are integrated that is true yoga.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

I didnt quit movies. They quit me.

I never killed a man I didn't have to.

What does dating mean?

It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship

Ally McCoist will always get you a goal, whether he's playing or on the bench.