Half the world is below average and it's not going to get any better.

It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.

Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.

I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.

I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all the answers.

...it's most important to accept that your yoga poses may not look like everyone else's. That's okay. Just adapt the poses to your current state of being.

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.

I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old.

Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

When you go into the causal realms you become someone else. The light vibrates very quickly. You will see that you are a concurrence of light - taken shape and form in the body you now occupy.

Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile...

We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to rail at, suffering easily.

A show is like having a climax. It's like having an incredible, natural climax. And then suddenly it's all finished, and you don't know what to do next.