If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.