As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson

The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.