My life is a reading list.

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.