She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

I write storys to entertain not to be the best

I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through life without understanding even the most basic of ironies.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were having a devil of a time selling it. It ended up in the hands of an editor of a children's publishing house, for which it was entirely inappropriate. She said, "Well, we can't publish this, but I think you should write something for children," which I thought was a really terrible idea.