The title is one of the most important things. It is the first thing that people read.

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day!

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

Success is a wonderful addition to my life.

People forget what a big issue toilet training is for adults and kids, and it is not fun, especially when you're in a car on the interstate.

I tell the stories in front of audiences and wait for something to happen. It's similar to a standup comic doing his schtick for an audience.

I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.

Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

There's people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. People are being given paid leave for killing people. That's not right. That's not right by anyone's standards.

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.

Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.