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

My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.

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

I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!

You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place.

There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.

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.