Discovery is the joy.

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.

...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course.

...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...This was untrue, of course.

It struck me then, for the first time, how unethical anxiety is, how it voids the reality of other people by conscripting them as palliatives for your own fear.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

People are usually more interested in what is new, rather than what is better.

You think it's impossible to be a passive fighter? Well, sometimes fighting just means existing. Existing, not going away, and quietly biding your time.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it's awesome.

I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.