I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.

A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at.

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.

I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.

I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

We're going to Surf City, gonna have some fun. Now, two girls for every boy.

I've found places that are just as beautiful as New England, but this is my home.

I love children because that's a part of my life that was so happy, and I like to remember back to those days where everything is a discovery, and the world is so fresh.

Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.

If you think you can kiss her, you probably could have ten minutes ago.

Sergeant Tin said it would be easier to just call you Corporal. She said you go back and forth, promoted one day and busted the next.

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

I'm a person who has to eat! I graze every few hours.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.

Melania Trump posted on Twitter -I have at all times been in full compliance with the immigration laws of this country. It's the same message she told MSNBC in February [2016].

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.