You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

All it takes is a single moment.

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.

We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

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

We pulled them [ Bink & Gollie] out of our feeble little brains.