In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon.

Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.

Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

I won’t let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.

there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.