Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

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.

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 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.

Once the illusion (branti) goes away, one can see ‘as it is’, and that is why ignorance goes away. When ignorance goes, maya (deceit) goes. Once God’s maya is gone, the solution is found.

Being in a relationship doesn’t entitle you to anything. You don’t get what you expect, you get what you create.

Adding little amounts over time makes a huge difference

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.

People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.

The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.

If my words fail, let my eyes and my heart be my language.

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

In high school I went on about three dates.