Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

All women speak two languages:
the language of men
and the language of silent suffering.
 Some women speak a third, 
the language of queens.

One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.

Days are a finite resource and it's best to protect the ones you have.

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.