We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, “You are noble enough,” and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.

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

Hello, freaky peoples!

When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do.