The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.