I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.

Your tribe is out there, you just have to find them.

My portal to another world was fiction.

So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!