We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become a creator, imagining the setting of the story, visualizing the characters, seeing facial expressions, hearing the inflection of voices. The author and the reader "know" each other; they meet on the bridge of words.

I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.