My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain ….

I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'.

I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?.

As people get older, they get married, have kids. I'm not married. I don't have kids, so I'm able to focus 100 percent on this..

I think kids are smarter than you think..

I've been with the project for like three years: creating it, pushing it. [There] becomes a certain doubt when you're pitching this story to people. ….

There's a theory out there that if you're in a public profession you're fair game. I couldn't disagree with that idea more. Especially with children ….

When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I s….

That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition….

This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do see me, and they're with a kid, th….

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate..

I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind of town that's a "great pla….

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves..

I think kids today are going to look at their Facebook postings like bad tattoos one day..

There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them..

It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that….

The meter is ticking [particularly in the face of climate change], so you've got to get to as much as you can as fast as you can. I grew up with 'Thi….

I think a lot of the problem is that at 8 o'clock there's nothing on for kids..

Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them..

It seems like my whole life I've been this little Canadian kid dreaming somebody would give me a chance..

How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids..