I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little kids to bed, reading them rhyming books. And so that's what I started doing. They were really bad. I have some in a box and it says on the box, it's a note to my kids you know, when I die, if you ever publish these I will come back and haunt you.

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.

you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

My mother was my greatest fan.