What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.

And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!

Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

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

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.

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.