"How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant."

"A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them."

"I can't ignore someone that's in need or is hurting. How can people just turn their heads from something like that."

"May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character."

"Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count."

"If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up."