I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

True love always happens in a flash.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.

Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.

What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find, and read what they're trying to keep out of your eyes. Read what they're trying to keep out of your brains. Because that's exactly what you need to know.

You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.