I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing for me.

I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution. The modern novels I read don't always deliver because I'm looking essentially for a story. As in Shakespeare, "The play's the thing." In particular I read detective stories for pacing, plot and suspense.

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.