Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.

Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things.

Everything has an educational value if you look for it. But it's the fun I want to get across.

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.

Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

Imperfection is a core dimension of freedom.