The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.

And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.

You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)