“You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.”

“When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.”

“I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of ...”

“I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!”

“Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.”

“I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”