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—Mabel Syrup, author of Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie and Commander Coriander Salamander and ’Er Singlehander Bellylander

“Where there is a work of art, there is no madness.”

—Michel Foucault

“Children’s book authors should be forced to read their stories aloud every single night of their rotten lives.”

—Calvin’s dad, in Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection