Nothing Exists Without Its Opposite.

Sometimes A Book Is Better Than It Ever Had A Right To Be Because Of The History The Reader Brings To The Reading And Because Of The Methods Educators Use To Bring A Particular Story Alive.

...you Don't Always Get What You Expect. I Wish Someone, Sometime When I Was Growing Up, Would Have Told Me What Expectations Would Get Me. ... Our Parents, Schools, Everyone Tells Us Things Will Be A Certain Way When We're Adults And If They're Not That Way, We Should Make Them Be; Or At Least Pretend. But After A Certain Point That Just Doesn't Work.

Beware The Short Terminal Guy With Nothing To Lose.

My First Book, 'running Loose', Was Censored Back In 1983 Or '84. Every Book I've Written Since Has Been Censored Somewhere.

I Think When You’re Dying You Start Looking For Important Things In The Corners. You Can’t Let Anything That Seems Even Semi-important Pass, Because It Passes Forever. Things Take On Meaning.