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.

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.

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?

If we all die and there is no God, then it's just eternal unconsciousness, you'll never know, but if you're wrong... you'll know forever.

It is what it is

Leave someone who hates you as much as you hate yourself.

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

"I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment..."

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define.