I chose a brunette, a redhead, a blond, and a kid with hair as black as print on paper.

I don’t think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. – Connor Kane.

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

Something made me pull sounds out of my silence...

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people’s feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o’clock.

Can you know excellence if you’ve never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

Jamie liked perspiration, a little bit of dirt, and complications.

I am convinced that not only do children need children’s books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?