They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

There seems to be no air in the air she breaths.