Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

If we all die and there is no God, then it's just eternal unconsciousness, you'll never know, but if you're wrong... you'll know forever.

What you resist, persists....Let go and your life will flow.

Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.

A difficulty for every solution.

If you look at Libya, I was deeply concerned about what would happen after Qaddafi was gone.

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.

To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don't.

My first solo was in church when I was five.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.