Life is about connection, not perfection.

With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.

Great relationships create great characters. Make them feel real. Alive. Tangible and unforgettable. Bad relationships kill them. Bury them. Make you wish they hadn't wasted your precious time.

Of course I believe in magic. I believe in storytelling.

Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.

I don't know who a character is till I look into their eyes.

They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.

To reach for yourself is to survive, to reach for others is to provide.

I just want you to know, I love the way you look at me. Make's me feel like everything's gonna be okay.

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

I love being home at Christmastime.

I watched the Republican debate. At one point, the candidates said there are no classes in America, a point then hotly debated by all six rich white guys that were there.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

That's something that rationally and logically I can't try to figure out, how somebody "transitions" so rapidly and so drastically, but I don't worry about it now.

The political is personal.

I think faith can be anything. It can be believing in yourself, or if you believe there's a higher being that's watching over you.