I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

I've always been a morning person, and what I don't get done in the morning I really don't get done at all.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give you that shiver. That, "yes, it's never been said quite that way before."

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.

Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.

That's the problem, we do get used to things.

It is important never to relax, however far you have come.

Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph.

People don't change. People are who they are.