I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.

Great minds think alike, but lovers think as one.

If you're confused about what to do, it's a sign that your enemy is winning.

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.

Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.

We have to think creatively about changes that need to be made in the workplace to accommodate the growing demands on the work force.