Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to write and as I write, I learn about the story.

A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.

One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!

A novel is a tricky thing to map.

I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.

A text is evolutionary by its very nature.

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.

Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions.

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

I have lain long here in your mind, longer than any nightmare has before me. I have sunk my roots into your worst imaginings and feasted on your memories. I know you, child.

What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world!

Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.

Our minds are information vacuums. Either we fill them with thoughts of our choosing or someone else will.

Don't bother about those who can't understand you, because they don't deserve you for what you are.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.

Stability is not the way of the world.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.