I'd Rather Be A Flash

Nothing Exists Without Its Opposite.

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

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.

Adopted. Big Deal; So Was Superman

...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.