Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person's life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book - if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith.