There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.