The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.

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.

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?

If we all die and there is no God, then it's just eternal unconsciousness, you'll never know, but if you're wrong... you'll know forever.

Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most effective way of speaking to God is without saying a word.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

This thing in your chest, slightly tilted towards the left, could be fidgety at times. Make sure you set it right.

The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

I try never to compare myself to other people. I just think this is who I am. You are happier when you think that way.

When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.