There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.

Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?

I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.

It's a weird kind of disconnect that this whole story [he Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] grew around a real doll of mine, and here he is, with his "Edward" expression on his face. It's kind of reality bumping into fantasy.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.