One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

No reality has the power to dispel a dream.

I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with the individual book, and on a macro level with the series as a whole, and that's pretty much what's happened.