To my faithful readers, because a book is like a pie—the only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.

As a rule, she didn’t like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.

Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.

Being a humble person, she gave her pie shop a humble name—PIE.

Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasn’t the only one in town who’d come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever.

Lardo was getting on in years, and his big belly tended to slow him down a bit.

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

Be your own hero.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

I was given all of my dad's guitars when he passed, and they were being stored at the house. My mother decided they were hers again, and she took them all back, and now they're going up for auction.

We are against the beauty and fashion fascist regime that gets hyped in America and all over the world. "The Beautiful People" is NOT against people who style themselves in whichever way.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

When it comes to picking parts, I do make an effort to choose parts that I want to do, and not necessarily parts someone else wants me to do, or parts that someone else is going to respond to.

I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.

The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.