Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.

When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.

The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.