Because when a guy does something stupid once, well, that’s because he’s guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl.

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head.

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don’t do that. I treat the child as an equal.