You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.

As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.

When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to be snow on the ground. I thought, "This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer."

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.

For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.