Are anybody's parents typical?

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

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.

Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.