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.

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.

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.

Success is most often a matter of competing with yourself for what is important to you as an individual.

You are always a gardener. What grows - and how it grows - is up to you.

I close my eyes and melt in its embrace, basking in the sweetest balm of forgiveness: that for which one need not even ask.

I wander cowboy sidewalks of wood, wearing a too-small hat, filled with remorse for the many lives I failed to lead.

I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

The sergeant is the Army.

We [americans] need to control our border just like people have to control who goes in and out of their house.

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.

The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.