“The first bowl of chocolate pudding was too hot, but Goldilocks ate it all anyway because, hey, it's chocolate pudding, right?”

“People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children’s books. But they think children are happy. That’s their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The Mo Willems interview." Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.]”

“A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.”

“All of the life-changing awesomewords and pictures and ideasinside your library are uselesswithout just one word outsideyour library: Open.”

“The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.”

“And the moral for Dinosaurs is: Lock the Back Door!”

“My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.”