I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them.

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.