Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.