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

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

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.

You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children