I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.

I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.

When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.

And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.