I spent the year behind on deadlines and everything else. It's only now in December that I feel even slightly caught up. 2016 has to be better.

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.

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 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.

Tatsuya: What you have "right now" won't necessarily continue on until forever...Hiro: ... Yeah, I know.

...the weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water...To cap our woe, there was no means to light a single fire. We had to imagine dinner.

Instead of concentrating just on finding good answers to questions, it's more important to learn how to find good questions!

Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.

Nobody is going to buy from you because you have quota to meet. They are going to buy from you because they see the value in doing so.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

I haven't stopped smoking...anything

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

All religions begin with the cry Help.