We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched

I became a children's author by accident.

If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.

Events become feelings, feelings become events

It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.