I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

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.

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

Some long for acceptance while others fear for anything ordinary.

The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth.

Don't let your fear hold you back, Jaz.” - Alf Abrahamsen

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.

I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.

The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.