I refuse to censor myself and kids will find their own way to my books and to all of the books that matter to them. As I write more honestly more kids will make their way toward me. And in subverting their repressive parents kids will learn the value of subverting the repressive nature of all authority figures.

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

One play can change your momentum forever.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.