The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.

I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property on the upside of. Graffiti and garbage were everywhere here. They were everywhere in the city, if it came to that, but elsewhere the garbage was better quality, and the graffiti was close to being correctly spelled. The whole area was waiting for something to happen, like a really bad fire.

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.