you can win a talent show and be so famous that you cant walk down the street, but no-one knows you next monday.

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

I've never had my heart broken.

A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out.

Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

He kissed her so gently she wondered if she had imagined it

They say that to live in the Wilds, you have to be half-wild yourself. Or at least very brave. And Zane is both.

Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen.

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?