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

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.

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

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.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry.

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call.

Now people are celebrated for being obsessive.

It would be hard to get worse. I had only one direction to go.

Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio.