I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Write even when the world is chaotic.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.