Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!

Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

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

I would infinitely prefer a daughter.

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.

If there's any advice I have to give, I would say it's that. If you're looking for a way to get closer to your kids, there ain't no better way than to grab 'em and read. And if you put them in front of a computer or a TV, you are abandoning them. You are abandoning them because they are sitting on a couch or a floor and they may be hugging a dog, but they ain't hugging you.