We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born. And I am turning into a vampire.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

I looked at her, and she was smiling like she was broken.

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.