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

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'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.

Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.

There is a simplicity to war. Attacking is the only secret. Dare- and the world yields. How quickly they forget that all it takes to change the course of history... is the will of a single man.

Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

You just never know when you're going into eternity.

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

No sky is heavy if the heart be light