Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

-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.

Gang members have joined the military since the mid-1800s.

I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England desperately, I find that my heart definitely has its home over here.

When do you stop to de-douche?

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.

It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice.

Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is threatening their very families.

Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.

There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another.