“I hear children screamingI want to awaken themto show them the hog's bloodand make them start screaming”

“It is strange to hear my wordsRead back to me.I don't think I wrote themTo have them ever leave the page.I think I only writeWhat happens across my brainWhen my feet are too weary To dance anymore.”

“If you don't want your children to hear what you're saying, pretend you're talking to them.”

“Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.”

“Oh Daddy, can’t you give her something to make her stop screaming?" asked Nick."No. I haven’t any anesthetic," his father said. "But her screams are not important. I don’t hear them because they are not important."-Indian Camp-”

“Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine.”