It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now

You are most powerful when you are most silent.

Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

All it takes is a single moment.

Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience.

Realizing your virtues is based on your determination

Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.

The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.

I'm really too young to go out into the world alone, " he thought as he lay down

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

Whenever God is ready to do something new with His people, He always sets them to praying.

New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of.

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.