...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.

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

Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it.

...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.