“That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.”

“Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.”

“I fix myself a hot chocolate because it is a gateway drug to reading.”

““There’s something you should know about me.”
“What’s that?”
“I don’t know, but you should know it.””

“There are people who think that we should never reveal anything, never show puppeteers and all of that. It tends to be something that parents worry about more than kids, because kids work just at face value.”

“(Televison) Spokesmen for the right wing of the Republican Party are tying to associate the Democrats with a so-called feminist agenda…that causes women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. (Sylvia) Heavy schedule.”

“Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.”

“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”

“I am planning on an autobiography. People should know something about me”

“If you want to know something about these people and enjoy them somewhat, before buying the map of the city you should buy the sonnets of Gioacchino Belli, the true guide of Rome. It's easy reading, educational and fun. Dante should be read to understand Florence and the Florentines; Belli, to understand Rome and the Romans. The first one never makes you laugh, the second makes you laugh all the time. And then get to know the inns.”