We'd need a miracle," he says. "A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.