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Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.

It's no new narrative to say that when people get out of child stardom, they oftentimes rebel in very serious ways.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

Some people have quick retention. I'm not one of those.

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to place political speech beyond the government's control, and we can be glad that it did.

That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.

I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.

One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.

If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.

Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of footballers, and when they fall foul, they become big news.

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

I never faked anything. I never played the Disney game of smiling and being a princess and then suddenly having a hard time, saying, 'That isn't who I really am.'

The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.