Well You've Been Brought Here

Very Slowly He Turned His Head Back To Look At Shmuel, Who Wasn't Crying Anymore, Merely Staring At The Floor And Looking As If He Was Trying To Convince His Soul Not To Live Inside His Tiny Body Anymore, But To Slip Away And Sail To The Door And Rise Up Into The Sky, Gliding Through The Clouds Until It Was Very Far Away.'' -the Boy In The Striped Pajamas

It Is Possible, You Know, To Drift Off To An Unknown World And Find Happiness There. Maybe Even More Happiness Than You've Ever Known Before.

I Was A Very Quiet Child, Quite Introverted, Really. Independent, Yes; I Didn't Need A Lot Of Supervision. Less So Than I Did When I Got Older, Maybe. But I Was A Bookish Child, Not Surprisingly. I Could Sit Quite Happily In A Corner For Hours And Entertain Myself With Books.

I Am Frustrated By Celebrities Who Decide To Write Children's Books Because They Think It's Easy. That Drives Me Crazy. It's Frustrating Because It's Unfair To Children. Because They'll Get A Lot Of Attention, They'll Get A Lot Of Marketing Budget And So On Just Because They're A Celebrity - The Madonnas, The Ricky Gervaises, The Russell Brands.

Sitting Around Miserable All Day Won't Make You Any Happier.