But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

Freedom is not a license for chaos.

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.