I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.

The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?