The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.