Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Goodnight world. While I sleep, I hope you'll all continue to do whatever it is you do. Unless you murder sleeping authors. Don't do that.

It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know, I just want to hide or scream or bleed or something, and...all that...

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.