Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers!

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.

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.

Blogging, I love you no matter how out of fashion you are.

If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.

when you unfriend the people you need, soon you will have to befriend the people you don't need

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]

I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.

This was Dante's. Crazy was what we had for breakfast when we ran out of Corn Flakes

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

The greatest failure is the failure to try.