I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.

The last safe place is safe no more.

People worry more about girls, for a good reason: I don't think my parents thought I was going to be raped by a classmate or attacked when I was walking alone in some neighborhood. So it's not just paranoid parents.

When things don't go right, go left