Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

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

Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.

It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.

Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.