Obscurity is never a virtue.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.

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

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.