I’ve done a prideful thing, a thing more sinful than she ever done to me. I took the bottom out of her life. - Ray Bradbury

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children. … It's mutual delight and love made manifest. For one thing, kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

The days of the Long Cold are done. Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave.