I've killed hundreds of teenagers. Hundreds. And I didn't know why. Why did I enjoy doing it so much? Why? And then I realized - I had a teenager at home!

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

Silently I dance a dance of chaos to the rhythm of a dying sun

Man is a plant, and its gardener. But it is only his soil that lets him rise, and it is only gardening himself, that may allow him to bear fruit.

My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect.

Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

I think I dont really have any expectations; I dont look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.

All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.