“One reads so as not to believe everything one reads.”

“A grudging willingness to admit error does not suffice; you have to cultivate ataste for it.”

“I always had to buy a book, even if I wasn't done with the one I was currently reading. I loved to read. I felt like the trun of each page echoed between the covers of the world inside them-and each book had its own rules. There, within the mystique of that connection, was something special, and I was an addict.”

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”

“Modern life was so fleeting. You could spend all day reading blogs, jerking off, sending e-mails, watching reality television, playing video games, drinking beers. This era had made it so easy to do nothing with your life. To be awake but not living. Just like I was.”

“An English major is like being in a book club that costs $40,000 a year, has only annoying people in it, offers no refreshments at the meetings, and where people actually read the books.”

“I write about the scariest monsters: The ones inside us all. And the ones that want to eat what is inside us all.”