Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.

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

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

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

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result.