You Have To Be Mad In The

Being An Outsider Means Not Being Heard, Not Having A Voice. It Means Being Treated As A Second-class Citizen, Being Diminished In The Eyes Of Others. We Have All Felt This Way At One Time Or Another, But Some Feel It More Consistently. Unfortunately, Our Schools Often Do Not Embrace The Talents Of Many Of Their Occupants.

Adopted. Big Deal; So Was Superman

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.

I Don't Think I'll Ever Lose The Feeling That I Had When I Read 'to Kill A Mockingbird' - Harper Lee Was Going Back Into Her Childhood. I Grew Up In A Real Small Town - Lee's Was In The South, Mine The Northwest - But Small Towns Have A Lot In Common. There Was Such A Revelation In Knowing That A Story Could Be Told Like That.