Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.

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.

Don’t just live your life. Get lost with love and enjoy this amazing mysterious fairytale life.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

I'm a pretty average guy and want to keep a low profile. I don't want the world necessarily to know about me.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

Less opinion, more perspective.

An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.