“If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for ...” — Matthew Tobin Anderson Quote

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever I'm reading on the lower shelf, but more importantly, it's where I keep a collection of ghost books.

Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.

When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to write with.