Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

It's fun to be amazing, to be the star of the show, to have everyone watching you-even if you have to act like a pig.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.

Matter of fact, I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books so I can figure out what's true and what's fake, which isn't always easy. Books are like truth serum--if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am.

I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said about that the better, because if there's one thing I learned from Ryter it's that you can't always be looking backward or something will hit you from the front.