This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.

The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much in them that I think many people took them more seriously than they ought to have.

The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.

But just suddenly I really, really needed to see you again right that minute, that night.

I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs.

I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.