When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.

So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!

I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading "Gossip Girl."

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.