Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.

And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

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.

Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do. I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see.