It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

it's like a squid in love with the sky.

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

Peaceful and racist thoughts can never coexist in the same mind. Living happily starts from loving yourself and others unconditionally.

Real suspense comes with moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense comes from the accidental and meaningless occurrence of one damned thing after another.

When you do something with all your heart and good intentions the small life turns magical.

I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early they can take steps to avert getting sick.

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

Shanks was the father figure but Roger Hunt was something special. It might sound daft but just picking up his sweaty kit gave me satisfaction.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.