I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay?
Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.
Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.
I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.
She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.
I remember in junior high school, which is what we called it, suddenly I was looking at myself, almost through other people's eyes, and thought: how does the world see me? So that was one of the things I was really interested in, when I was writing Goodbye Stranger.