I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.

When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel right requiring a young person whose family would object to the book to read it. Just as I would never force that person to read it, I would ask those folks to not force others not to read it. To me, that is just good manners.

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?

I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that they are a real person.

And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess he didn't know how much she talked or how much I listened.

We accept the love we think we deserve.