“Someday you'll be a grown-up ... and then your mother will have no one to talk to.”

“...you must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.”

“If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.”

“I don't want a new man.""I'll be dead someday," my mother said. "And then what? You'll wish you had someone.""I have a hamster.”

“No one can tell you what your path is . . . but someday you'll discover it. . . and it won't be at all what you expected.”

“When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.”