A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

Being a child is in itself a profession.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.