Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.

Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.

I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.