Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.