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

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.

Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked. How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.