I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

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?

Life is education, it only end in death.

I dance daily to the music in my heart.

He who shoots first laughs last.

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found.

Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural in all likelihood is not.

The still small voice of gratitude.

You don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress.

Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man.