That's good when you don't know what you're doing. But you're doing it and it's spontaneous and you're not afraid.

Heavy petting, that was fun! That was good. And frankly, you know I wish kids would go back to it. It's very satisfying. And it's not as scary. So many girls, you know this. I mean they are having what we call sex. Right? They're having intercourse. They don't want to, they don't get anything out of it.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.

you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.