The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

Everyone holds a certain type of power. For young people, it's their youth, their attractiveness, and their energy. But they're terrified that as those qualities fade, what are they going to replace that form of power with?

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.