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

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

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

Let us kill each other with love and kindness—not with hatred and guns.

You create your future in the Present, use your Now well, for a better Tomorrow!

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.

Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.