I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

Hate will cause you to "catch a case". Release yourself from your own personal jail before you are put in the real one for life! It ain't worth it!!

I suppose books are my real passion in life.

I've never scratched, or punched, or slapped anybody in my real life.

In the books, I meet characters which I really like and I think that they are like me... but so far I haven't met them in real life!