This is the place where death rejoices to help those who live. It's written somewhere in every morgue I've ever been in. Nice way of looking at it, isn't it?

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.

If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.

Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all rolled into one.

And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime. That is not the color of red at all.

Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.