We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.

You must believe in free will; there is no choice

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.