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

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.

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King yet they have been very badly treated by his people.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat.

There's not much point in finding a magic ring that lets you into other worlds if you're afraid to look at them when you've got there.

Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.

As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.