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

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

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

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.

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

All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked.