You should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, A picture book is the essence of an experience.

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.