Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

May you find the strength of your sacred-self.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

I close my eyes and think of what might be possible. And, in my mind, I see fireworks over the Hudson.

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

Effective therapies treat the whole body as a unit.

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.