I couldn't get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you.

Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.

The best thing about doing a signing tour is that numbers become faces. I got to sign books for six or seven thousand people, all of whom were dreadfully nice. Everything else, the interviews, the hotels, the plane travel, the best-seller lists, even the sushi, gets old awfully fast. Well, maybe not the sushi.

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.

All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.