My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.

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.

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.

I love blogging, even though apparently it's still dying, and hate it when I have too much going on to do so regularly.

Freedom...is the act of releasing ourselves from the bondage of that which keeps us from living the life we were meant to live.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.

I'm rather inclined to liking people.

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.