You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.

Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?

I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.