Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing?

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

I want my name to mean me.

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.