Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.

When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.