You are most powerful when you are most silent.

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now

Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

All it takes is a single moment.

Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.

It is at the edge of excellence that genius awaits.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.

What we're all looking for is someone who doesn't live there, just pays for it.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

The gods sustain and guide all their works.

You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

I’m stupidly curious. I will go and touch anything until I find out that it’s very harmful.