Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the innocent, and it is baked in the ovens of Auschwitz. There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but there was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the future and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage to your sight.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.