I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.

Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things.

Everything has an educational value if you look for it. But it's the fun I want to get across.

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

Relationship is only two on board. It has to sink when there is one extra passenger

Sometimes while you are so passionately busy building, there will be others as busy destroying. Do not stop. One day you will notice how high above you get, and how down below they end up

It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

I think it's terrible to show that to kids. It's - I think you should - if you - if you do a piece where something violent happens and someone dies or is badly injured, you must show the pain.

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.

He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.