All I owe the world is my art.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

The ordinary can be like medicine.

She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.