You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

Cat, you ruined mom's dress!" "Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.

Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.