Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.

I can't rightly say where deciding to write about the American Revolution came from; I had bits and pieces of information about the war and about the country at that time that I'd collected over the years and, of course, I'm comfortable in the woods, so, finally, it just all feel into place.

He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping.

The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!