Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?

I'll live in another world, then.

We'd decided to write a book about two friends. I gave her some coffee and then we sat there not knowing what to do. How do you start writing a book together? So Kate [DiCamillo] got up after about 10 minutes into this endeavor, and said, 'Well, that was fun,' and started to head out the door. I said, 'Wait, wait, wait, no no no,' because I'm a bit more patient.

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now

The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.

I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.