You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

Yes," I said. "My name is seven-five-nine-nine-three-nine-ex-dash-one. Junior.

I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.

Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn't made of titanium and black leather with spikes on it. But it seemed exactly right, in a weird, heart-fluttery kind of way. And I really loved it.

Advanced life-forms, my seweet patootie. Jerks. Both of them.

i play a mean harmonica

You love him so much it feels like you can't go on without him. You feel like you might die without him.