“I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.”

“I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.”

“Two wrongs don't make a right.”

“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.”

“There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood”

“I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.”

“When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk”