A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

it's like a squid in love with the sky.

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

I was diagnosed with paranoia for fear of never smoking weed again.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

Her chin lifted. "Very well. Here is my best offer. Half of my nakedness for all of yours." He pretended to think on it. " It's a bargain.