It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Politics always change. Stories never do.

How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?