I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

I like stirring things up. Im on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I dont get in too much trouble.

The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

Whenever the opportunity exist, we must give our very best.

You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet:it lives in the other worldwhich no one owns.The peach trees blossom, The water flows.

A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.

I do love a man who can cook.

It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

Beauty is only bearable when you're happy.

It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.