Don't live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.

unless someone like you comes around, things will never change.

Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!

Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.