When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

Remember what I've told you. Remember me.