Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again.

Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.