I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we're being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.

Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

Most of My Friends are two-thirds water

I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young.

They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.

Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.

I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car. I want to go inside Fred’s soul and play there.

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.