I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.

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

School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

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.

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.