I understand now that nobody could have saved Ty but Ty. There’s no one else to blame. Not you. Not me. Ty was holding all the cards.

It's just high school, man. Those guys are just high school guys, and in ten years they're going to be working for people like me. I know that. I just have to make it through two more years.

Where are you?" I wheeze into the floor. "Where did you go?

But my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

The results of the two referenda demonstrate the majority view of the Taiwanese people.

Gold will be slave or master.

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.

The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed by the Lord. In fact, they reach their maturity.