I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.

He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.