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

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

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.

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!

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

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

Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?