Storytelling Explorer Mugs

"I'm not sure if the audience is ready to embrace you in a romantic comedy."

The little prince is an alien

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

Characters jumping out of a book.

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

"One side is for depression, the other is for anxiety, and if you're still confused make an appointment with the cat."

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

Alice in Wonderland-Hare and Hatter putting Dormouse in Teapot

'Of course it's safe. It has no preservatives, no additives, no artificial coloring...'

Man commiting suicide finds the treasure at the bottom of the sea.

Dorothy and Toto

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

"I'm after the history section."

"What would you recommend to hold a seven-year-old girl's attention in a car from East Seventy-eighth Street to Bridgehampton?"

Man writing at laptop says: 'It's a UK road movie ??" to give it more scale, I'm making the characters three inches tall.'

"Fellow graduates, when I look at you, I see future princesses, ninjas, wizards, superheroes, and zombies."

Alice Through the Looking Glass - 'Tickets Please!'

Don Quixote

"It's a narrative I didn't intend."

Getting the bus back into town from the Bologna Children's Book Fair...

"And Jasper, dear Jasper, with his soulful eyes and great sagging jowl, would be stretched upon the floor, his tail a-thump when he heard his master's footsteps." Penny loved Daphne Du Maurier's 'Rebecca'.

"Will she know what this is in reference to?"

"It's a coming-of-middle-age story."

'If I want to live happily ever after, grandma, do I have to marry a princess?'

Where the Wild Things Summer

"That's Eleanor. She's a fact checker."

Ilyasah Shabazz

“I’ve got an idea for a story: Gus and Ethel live on Long Island, on the North Shore. He works sixteen hours a day writing fiction. Ethel never goes out, never does anything except fix Gus sandwiches and in the end she becomes a nympho-lesbo-killer-whore. Here’s your sandwich”

History Department: 'I used to be a revisionist myself, you know!'

"What do you suppose Ken Burns will have to say about all this in 30 years?"

'The old woman who lives in a shoe gets a camper van.'

Tom Stoppard

Reading room

"Wait a minute. Where am I going? I'm a writer."