My favorite food is deep-fried ravioli. I always get that every year.

My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favorite five letter word is never because it insists on contradicting the promise. My favorite four letter word is once because it says it happened then. My favorite three letter word is yes because I’m just now learning to say it to my heart. My favorite two letter word is if because it makes all things possible like this: If not always If not never Then once. Yes.

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, you have to read this, you have to read this."

I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.

For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.