I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

-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.

I just wanna drink chocolate milk with my lovely!

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

You start out with an hour on the treadmill, then another hour of lifting - hell, in two weeks you're not doing anything anymore. You gotta be reasonable.

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.

Never underestimate the power of helplessness!

You will not! It's wrong." "What, kissing you, or kissing you in Pies and Stuff?

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.