In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.

What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers, or brain cleansers.

You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure.

Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book.

I was 17 years old when I was killed by a vampire"-Ruby Kennedy from My Handsome Vampire.

The hard truth is that sometimes we need to lie to ourselves to continue to live

What’s the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you’re alive?

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I like what I'm afraid of what kind of toothpaste I use." - Rose Morgan

Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny.

The quality of a person's life does not depend on the circumstances of his life as much as the attitude with which he faces those circumstances.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself