There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance, you might snap your fingers and grin to demonstrate that the music had charms that could soothe your savage breast. If you were employed as a spy, you might snap your fingers and grin in order to deliver a message in secret snapping-and-grinning code.

I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

I know what is going on," said Sir. "I am the Boss! Of course I know!