I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

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.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.