The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.

We wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy.