Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak, snap like this one did. That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.