I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.

If you are not learning, you are not living.

When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.

Right and wrong matters little when survival matters most.

Yeah, I write Urban Fantasy, but its more like Die Hard or Indiana Jones with Fairies, Mummies and a Vampire who uses guns more than his teeth.

If you're not writing, you're wronging.

Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer.

Acceptance and validation are the fuels of the future.

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

A situation in itself is not powerful

The heart could only be kept warm by love.

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.

It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind.

There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them.

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.