We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.