Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.

Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.