The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?

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.

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

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

Fail often and fail cheap.

As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.

Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

It's nice to be in a movie that hasn't been absolutely slaughtered by the press.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

In the music world, when we're making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else - sort of like an athlete, where you become a role model to someone.