Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway.

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.

I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and rarely say anything other than 'Pass the salt' or 'If you're not going to eat that, can I have it?'

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.