All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!

Pick-a-lock, Pick-a-lock, you'll regret the day, When you took a mouse thief and locked him away, Silly cat, look at that, it's two for one, A thief and a warrior, by dawn will be gone.

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.

I fell, you see. Trod on my abbot, Father Habit. Oh, dear! I mean.