Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

Sand in reality is nothing else than very small stones.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room

How can I ever repay you for what you've given me? A daily opportunity to change the world for the better simply by spending time with the person I love the most.

The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I love cookies baking. During the winter, they have these candles that smell like cookies, and I always buy like a hundred of them.

You should wake up every day looking for the trouble you can get into.

A sense of belonging is not physical. We cant find it by changing where we live or what we do. We have to carry it within us

I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.