“For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminati...” — Rick Riordan Quote

For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

Unless you stop him. Perhaps next we meet.

If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.

We were just looking at maps...

Soon after joining the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia, I was called upon as part of team to respond to a malaria outbreak. My team was dispatched to a village in southwestern Ethiopia, where I not only observed the malaria epidemic's shocking effects on adults and children but also experienced it first-hand.

In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.