It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?

I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

Evil can do anything, for a price.

I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.