...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.

Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need.

If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.

If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.