“There’s no limit to how much you’ll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.”

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

“If you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you will learn. Oh, the most wonderful stuff.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.”

“It is better to know how to learn than to know.”

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”

“You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.”

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”

“Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‘You can do better than this.'”

“I am not a consecutive writer.”

“I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.”

“Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.”

“You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.”

“‘The Lorax’ book was intended to be propaganda.”

“The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.”

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”

“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”

“When you’re in a Slump, you’re not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.”

“I’m afraid sometimes you’ll play lonely games too, games you can’t win because you’ll play against you.”

“Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you.”

“I’m sorry to say so but, sadly it’s true that bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you.”

“You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”

“Everything stinks till it’s finished.”