They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.

This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.

For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the complication, you're probably it.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Kristen is looking at me like I'm a plume of smoke in the kitchen, right before you yell fire!