She left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.

'Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don't want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me, and there is this old swing set out here that my dad made for me when I was a kid.' 'I must see this old swing set of tears immediately,' he said. 'I'll be over in twenty minutes.'

Omnis cellula e cellula," he said again. "All cells come from cells. Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was born of a previous cell. Life comes from life. Life begets life begets life begets life begets life.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.