Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.

The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about kids, which is a little bit like putting the experience under a magnifying glass, you realize you have no idea how you thought as a kid. I've come to the conclusion that most of the things that we remember about our childhood are lies. We all have memories that stand out from when we were kids, but they're really just snapshots. You can't remember how you reacted because your whole head is different when you stand aside.