The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.

You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.

I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything- tangible or intangible- again. To never trust or wonder.

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.