He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.

Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our kids off on things like "Hansel and Gretel," which features child abandonment, kidnapping, attempted murder, forcible detention, cannibalism, and finally murder by cremation. And the kids love it.

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.