A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.