And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!

A miracle is often the willingness to see the common in an uncommon way.

The world I held so closely, she played me like a game, I released and left her laughing to stand on my own two feet.

The government can make laws, but only the God can give self-esteem where there is none

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.

Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

It's strange - some directors are really talented but they can be so precious when it comes to letting you be a part of it.

In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.