“I like books. I thought you liked books.""Let's be honest, Rudy, books are pornography for brains. All that subtext and bullshit and hidden imagery.”
“Teen books are like adult books, without all the bullshit.”
“you see book is like a machine if it don't have gas it can't start just like our brain without book we wouldn't know how to spell word”
“There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.”
“There were no books in the Afterwards, which the people thought was some serious bullshit.”
“Of all things, I liked books best.”