I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.

It is not aloofness, superiority. It’s a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn’t want to gather close her comrades?

Things can get pretty rough out there, " he says. "Can't they? For you girls? You're all a bunch of warriors, aren't you? Lionhearted.

It is simple as this: she has a complicated life and her clothes can't help but show it. It is all part of her unique disheveled glamour.

...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change.That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.

She wasn't just a B-girl, she was carrying the whole ugly world in her eyes.

Love is a kind of killing, Addy, " she says. "Don't you know that?

My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I'm not and making mistakes that I didn't have any fun making.

If a man can say ‘My life is more important than my country, ’ that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!

No one ever pays to learn the most important things.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

Donald Trump is a charismatic personality bigger than life.

Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

I am really heavy into songwriting.