I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of work. I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to sa….

I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply..

And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second an….

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger..

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods..

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should..

There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care ….

Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must b….

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands..

We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we di….

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you..

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

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence..

It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids don’t live to see ….

There's an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They say that we'….

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying..

…It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basi….

I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene….

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house..