I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

I say, Ich liebe Deutschland! Heil Hitler! and farewell.