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If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.

I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

The true color of intelligence is not in knowledge but in the wisdom of actions.

Whatever human endeavor we choose, as long as we live our truth, it is success.

We also know that ISIS is recruiting who are not in those databases. So of course, we're going to miss them. And then we now learn that DHS says, "No, we can't check their social media."

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

The fire doesn't make you what you are; it reveals what you were.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.

If I was a Pokemon, I'll either be a Psyduck or a Jigglypuff.