I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, Id want to set it in a place that was familiar to me – Manhattan, where Id grown up – and Id model the characters on myself and my friends. – Cecily von Ziegesar
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. – Albert J. Nock
Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. – John F. Kennedy
