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

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

You Can't Judge Islam By Those People Any More Than You Can Judge Christians By Abortion Clinic Bombers Or White Separatists. Love Turn To Hate At The Fringes Of Any Belief System.

...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.

I Have Made A Career Of Creating Characters Who Fight School Authority And Chomp At The Bit To Get Out Into The 'real' World And Live Their Lives, Mostly Because That's The Kind Of Teenager I Was.