Romance is good, you know

Observing people. A spark of idea for a story sometimes comes from the simple act of observation.

People say that Paris is the city of love, but for me, New York deserves the title more. It's impossible not to fall in love with the city like it's almost impossible not to fall in love in the city.

Writers perform the so-called counterfactual thinking all the time. All the time. For most people, counterfactual thingking is a habit, but for writers, it is a necessity

Fanscination is what keeps a writer going. To be able to write, a writer has to be fascinated about a particular something that becomes the idea of the story

A kiss should be personal, not a mandatory public event

People say that Paris is the city of love, but for Raia, New York deserves the title more. It's imposible not to fall in love with the city like it's almost impossible not to fall in love in the city

Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

You have to control what you can control, not the entire game, and try to play the best soccer possible and play clean and be smart and professional.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting.

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.

The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.

Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.