I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.

He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.