There must be more to life than having everything.

I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.

I wanted my wild things to be frightening.

It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.