Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.

What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.