It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

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.

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.

But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

We do not believe that you can be 'half responsible' or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in

We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives.

There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.

Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it.

I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.