It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

Guns don’t kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.