There are two competing philosophies in Wool: one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive, and the other one is that everyone should live completely freely and happily and everything will sort itself out.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

Evan Price is not a man to be questioned. He is a man who will question you.

My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.