A broken clock is right two times a day.

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Let's fly away and live forever

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.