Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

MIGHT, something God only has.

Truth is the strongest weapon against the darkness of lies! EL

Keep your hands off me.” She spoke viciously, through her teeth, and he caught a glimpse of her deVere ancestry. She was a virago in tiny, fragile, fairy form.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.

I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.

Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.