Quotes

While, to me, daily fantasy is in no way sports betting, it's certainly a cousin of sports betting in that it attracts many of the same type of people who would otherwise choose to bet on sports.

I'm not coming in as an advocate of sports gambling. I'm trying to be more of a realist to say it's going on in a massive way... and I think the right course would be therefore to legalize it and regulate it.

Strong college basketball is great for the NBA.

I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.

Ultimately, the issue is not whether you are pro- or anti-sports betting. You begin, from my standpoint, from the premise that it is going to continue to exist, and if it is going to continue to exist, should it be shoved underground, or should it be regulated?

I tend to be a pretty physical person.

I love technology. I have my iPad, iPad mini, iPhone and Mac laptop. Because I love technology, I think if I were not at the NBA, I would try to be part of a tech startup company.

I watch college basketball and sports in general. I'm also a runner. I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan near Central Park, so I try to squeeze in runs through Central Park when I can.

I ran track. I ran cross country. But I did not play organized basketball in high school, at least on our team. But I played a lot of sports.

The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully.

Sexuality is very fluid, but I never chose to be gay.

I have OCD and, literally, walking on the left, needing things to be in even numbers with few exceptions. One and seven, any number that ends in seven, that's all me. All the tics like the pulling of the ear and scratching of the palms, all me.

It wasn't until I hit 20 that I became an obsessive reader, I think, which feels a little funny considering I was a bookseller for five years and have been reviewing YA novels for four years.

My favorite uncle died when I was eleven, and that was two months after 9/11, so that was a particularly difficult time with my family.

'History Is All You Left Me' is about the loss of your first love and how you move on beyond that and if you can.

Being more happy than not helps you get up every day.

Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.

There will be opportunities for hope and happiness, and happiness will return to your life, but you will always feel that loss if that person really meant that great a deal to you.

'They Both Die At The End' is about coming face to face with your own mortality.

Especially with grief and heartbreak, you can go through these things and think, 'I will never be whole again.'

All my books center around death in some way.

Writing is my therapy.

Whereas Books of Wonder excels with children's literature, McNally Jackson is where I go for my adult new releases, and no, it has nothing to do with the fact that Taylor Swift shops there, too.

For me, I remember being 19 and coming out as bi to all of my friends. I'd had girlfriends, and all of these experiences and such, and then, as I got older, I started identifying as gay.

When I really want to be comforted myself, what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult.