He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

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

I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Über Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the hospital, I wander around and talk to the people in the streets. They are very strange people, and I get my ideas from them.

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

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.