“Teen books are like adult books, without all the bullshit.”

“I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.”

“I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.”

“Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.”

“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you”

“Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.”

“My mistake was in ever opening the books.”