A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.

Life is serious but art is fun!

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.

The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.