One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast.

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.

The spirit calls, I must surrender.

all the wordsall the poems know my warm, soft spots.

Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.

I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose.

It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.