The truth is, we are all barbarians.

"Children's books should challenge, comfort, and inspire."

改变生活的方法：立即开始。充满激情地去做。没有例外。

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion， for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

I always believe if you’re stuck in a hole and maybe things aren’t going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.

作家是一个精神上的无政府主义者，就像每个人灵魂深处都是。他对一切和每个人都感到不满。作家是每个人的替罪羊，也是每个人的先知。