I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

The girls are beautiful in Hollywood - and enough silicon to caulk a sink.

There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

I've seen firsthand the high human cost of war.

It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.