The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.

Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.

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

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

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

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