No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

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

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.