We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

A dream without a plan is just a wish

...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.

A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.

More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America. What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good.