Things will get worse before they get better.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.

There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

We writers are resilient souls.

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

If you want more influence, love more people.

I carefully choose people in my life and if you are not happy with it, then its your call to be angry, broken, disappointed and lose sleep over my choice, judgement & decision... no apologies.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

We are so many different people in one lifetime.

It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.

If we knew what people had been through, their sorrow and suffering, we would not be so quick to judge.

Anything that has to do with money, I want to be in that business.

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.