Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.

There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

We writers are resilient souls.

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.

The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.

When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.

I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this poem is ..."

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.