I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them..

Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again..

Freedom is not a license for chaos..

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory..

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the boo….

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why ….

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected..

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't rea….

Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all m….

To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays..

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it sav….

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off ….

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job….