I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now

You are most powerful when you are most silent.

Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

All it takes is a single moment.

Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.

Here comes Santa Claus! Here comes Santa Claus! Right down Santa Claus Lane!

The Ministry places a rather higher value on my life than yours, I’m afraid.

The first rule of business is FUN

Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

Why aren't you signed up for the 401K? I'd never be able to run that far.

Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.