A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

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.

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

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