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

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.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

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

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.

Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss - taunting, deep, and luscious.

For the most part, I don't like people who soapbox.

One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.

In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.

When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.

One should love animals. They are so tasty.

Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

Amy Poehler and I have been friends for so long, we're like Oprah and Gale. Only we're not denying anything.