I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.” Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.

Fang: "Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?"

I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.