I write in a small office at home.

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

When I began to read, I began to exist

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

Reading is not optional.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith.

Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.

Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.

The main message of it is to not get stagnant and that God wants us to continue to grow and become a better person.

During his campaign, [Donald] Trump promised the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution in the 1980s.

If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.