Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.

The last time I was this scared, I peed myself." "The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.

It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.