Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what's going on in contemporary fiction - not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.