You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
Kate DiCamillo[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, "What are you working on now?" And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said "It doesn't matter at all now."
Kate DiCamillo