I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.

It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

Control is an illusion that you must give up.

If women are given the same honor and dignity in society as the men, they will run the society way better than men.

Dreams do come true if you work hard and you get your head down.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.

Ex-convicts prepared the eggs for the White House’s Easter Egg Roll. It’s nice to see the White House reaching out to former members of Congress.

If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.