What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?

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.

Time is the least thing we have of.

women are born twice.

It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.

Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons where we can send continuous numbers of people.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

While there is time, let's go out and do everything.

To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.