I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

My father is a liar and so am I. But I’m going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions. That’s my promise. This time I truly mean it.

A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.

Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers!

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me.

In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

I love blogging, even though apparently it's still dying, and hate it when I have too much going on to do so regularly.

Blogging, I love you no matter how out of fashion you are.

Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.

I love the sweet sound of my name when you say it with love.

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

Start doing what you want to do, and everything else will be revealed to you.

Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?

I’m not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably.

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

I'm happy to be working with all women.