YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.

Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).