I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

…It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

Image of a girl holding a blaster to a twin’s temple. “Remember, bi***. You can’t spell ‘danger’ without DNA.” Blam.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

You need the noise of your friends in space.