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

If you don’t jump, the wings never come.

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.

Protective coloration...you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box the world prescribed; it was far to small to hold me. So I knocked down a few walls.

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

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