It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar

Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.

She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are

The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.

That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.

Love is a secret society, a community for two.

He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat.

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

And then I noticed the dandelions.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

If you follow anything far enough in the universe, it will eventually lead to light.

I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.

Fidelity is for phonographs