"I remember being so sad. Like, why? You're a YA author in an elementary school. Why come if you don't want to deal with kids?"

"I just didn’t know about the rule. If there was a sign, I didn’t see it. If she’d let me know when I got to her that only one was allowed, I’d happily have chosen one! But she was pissed. To her credit, she’s probably sick of the long lines of people to meet her at her age after her speaking engagements, and probably sick of the same mistakes. But it does suck to be so excited to meet someone and be caught off guard by their hostility."

"This seems to be a pattern with science popularizers. Carl Sagan was also an asshole, and Neil Degrasse Tyson doesn’t have a very good reputation either."

"The guy was in the league 35 years ago."

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