Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.

You must choose a positive response to any situation. This is the step action to conquer it.

We have reduced the understanding of prayers to incantations.

Become a lifelong learner. Read books, watch videos, listen to audio, and seek lessons for learning how to live your best life now.

We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.

These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.

With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.

Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.

When I write music it's hard for me to keep it going repetitively.