Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the creative mind of my readers. I had my turn to make of it what I would, now it is their turn.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.