Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.

That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.