I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.

Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.

A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at.

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.

I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

We're going to Surf City, gonna have some fun. Now, two girls for every boy.

I've found places that are just as beautiful as New England, but this is my home.

I love children because that's a part of my life that was so happy, and I like to remember back to those days where everything is a discovery, and the world is so fresh.

One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first.

The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.

I love variety in my life.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

I'd commit suicide, if I could do it without killing myself.

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.

Quanity has it's own quality.