I love time with family and friends, but completely relish time on my own when I have no agenda to follow, no to-do's, just me and time alone.
Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and his playful, heartfelt, more fantastical novels like 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Y...
I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scient...
With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else.
I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that.
we should lean into the pain, instead of running away from it.
My head felt like it was going to crack down the middle, like some demented dwarf was driving glass pins through my brain.
The Latter, I can tell, is added for my benefit. An assumption that the elderly cannot help but be impressed by the old fashioned.
Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?" "It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words...
He peered down at me. “Jesus Christ. You’re leaking.” If by “leaking” he meant “sobbing like a girl,” I guess so.
Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because you will be in shock.
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for...
It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.
I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.
She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.
...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.
I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.
[Will Herondale] would say he knew a warlock who was a better friend, and more worth trusting, than many a nephilim warrior.
Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.
[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.
