Get smart and nothing can touch you.

Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.

What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!

They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .

The difference is that was then, this is now.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.