Norton Juster

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.