The only reason I've ever had to wear a hat is to avoid skin cancer.

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.

Having one eye makes you see the world in unusual ways, Shockwave..." -Overlord

What's the rush, honey? We have all the time in the world.

It had to be the hardest thing, even if he’d never known it himself – to accept that the ones you loved would find their own way home.

I've had a lot of arguments with people, but it's never really gotten physical.

I think that, especially as the kids are growing up, they have so much stuff going on in their own lives, they don't really know how much they're looking at their mom as the big problem

It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea.

You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try

Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material.

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?