I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

Everyone should have a hippie painter anarchist in their lives. It's the guys in silvered aviators with guns that you've got to be wary of.

Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.

I had a nightmare that I slept without my nose tape on thank God it wasn't true!

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

The uphill climb is slow,but the downhill road is fast.

If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.

I've got quite a varied iTunes, and I like to raid people's CD collections and take on their music.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.