In war everybody is a prisoner.

The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is a secure marketing niche. But the cost of security is exclusion from literary consideration.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.