So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

He had waited until I had my door open, then driven away. The perfect gentleman. Sort of like Dracula just before he drank your blood.

In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

The Left needs causes like fish need water

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.

Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

In my own life, I have no problems letting out a good scream.