How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

And the walls became the world all around.

There must be more to life than having everything.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!

Conscience is the most sacred of all property in which our contemporary government of criminals aspires to plunder from our compatriots by the means of unconstitutional surveillance.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

Merkel is an amazing woman, very experienced in international politics.

Religion stills a thinking mind.

I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

You DO know what to do.

I think it's important to remember that the court itself, the federal government itself belongs to the American people.

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

Things have done their part; it is for us to do ours.