I'm bad at picking heroes.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.

If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.