I was once on a panel where we concluded that the only things you couldn't have in YA were boring and beastiality. Now with the introduction of shapeshifters, I'd say just boring.

I've worked out a Ninja Replacement Score for novels. It's basically the number of characters that need to be replaced by ninjas to make the book good.

Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end.

Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end. Sometimes magic doesn't listen after all.

Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.

I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.

He was on me before my brain processed the fact that he was coming for me.

Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.

An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

I'm pretty in tune with everything that happens on the PGA TOUR. Jordan Spieth is my guy. I love watching him play.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.