We're going to Surf City, gonna have some fun. Now, two girls for every boy.

Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.

A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at.

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.

I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.

I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

I've found places that are just as beautiful as New England, but this is my home.

I love children because that's a part of my life that was so happy, and I like to remember back to those days where everything is a discovery, and the world is so fresh.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

Why are there so many trees in the jungle?

What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.

Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

I definitely am looking to do some more dramatic roles; I'd love to do a period piece. I'm just getting started; I feel like there's a whole wealth of options out there to try my hand at.

Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.

I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

Of all the medicines In the inner life, A smile is by far The best medecine.