Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.

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.

What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.