The storm starts, when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

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.

Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.