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

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.

I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.

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.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.