You have to accept the critical reviews if they treat you with respect. Actually, it's one person's opinion. So, it's a concern but not an overriding one, and I don't stay up nights worrying about reviews. But there are certain people I respect who I hope will like a book.

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

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.

I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.