I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models.

Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.

Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.

Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.

Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.

I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.

Kevin Cornell and I have worked together a bunch.

Sad stories make good books

It is obvious that the prevalent Christian world-view is not a Kingdom world-view

People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

I reread "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton, the father of all sports books. Aside from that, and books like "Out of Their League" by Dave Meggyesy, sports books generally pull their punches.

I believe that Thomas Jefferson said: 'If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?'

You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.