He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.

She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?

But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys.

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?