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

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

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

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.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

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.

You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and actupon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking andsubsequent actions.

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.

When I'm singing at the piano and I'm having a really nice fun day singing, if I have a headache, the headache will immediately dissipate just the notes going through my head.

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.

All surfeit is the father of much fast.