But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You just have to accept a little mystery, Ben. People are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can't know everything. You're not supposed to. This isn't a history book. It's just the world. It's a messy place.

You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.

The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.