“There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.”

“We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.”

“Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are n...”

“If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five books and had zero...”

“I'd love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people get cancer, very few parents will...”

“If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art...”

“Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, becau...”

“Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- po...”

“What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.”

“Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsib...”

“My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.”

“A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.”