I'm a firm believer and always have been that there aren't all that many things that you should not express to children in an age-appropriate manner, and as a parent, that is your job - to be discerning as to whether or not your child can handle the information, provided you have the ability to express yourself in that age-appropriate way.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being