I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

We are all told to ignore bullies. It's something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.

You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.

For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.