If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.

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

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.