Nothing Exists Without Its Opposite.

Certainly Working With Teens Keeps Me Up To Date With Language And With Certain Kinds Of Thinking. I Often Feel Like I Have To Go Back To That 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, And That Forms The Core Voice. I Can Draw On Teens From 1964 To 2001 To Find A Part Of The Voice I Need.

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.

There's Only One Thing To Say To The Censors: Shut Up.

You Have To Be Mad In The Language You're Mad In.

I Believe There Was A Big Bang And That Because Of That We Are All Connected Into Infinity, And I Know Very Little Having To Do With Human Beings That Doesn't Also Have To Do With Connection.