For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen.

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.