“It will go away... The stuff in your head. Little by little.”

“I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.”

“Listen earnestly to anything [your children] want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.”

“The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.”

“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”

“Jesus is busy with his own stuff, and is not going to get involved in your little tug-of-war. Plus, don't forget, he has his own mother to deal with. She's all he can handle, as far as mothers go.”