So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

Fear dims when you learn things.

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.