My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.

It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.

A child can have too many toys, but never enough books.

You never know when your ideas are going to come back to you.

Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.

Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.

Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.

It's the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.

Most of all, I like chasing girls.

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.