Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

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.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!

Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.

I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a laugh. For another thing, writing is easier than digging ditches. Well, actually, that's an exaggeration. It isn't.

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