Occupation: Novelist Birth: 1975
There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book..
Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile..
All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence..
Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after lovi….
If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered..
Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from..
Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans..
And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anyth….
Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels..
You can't just stop technological progress. Even if one country stops researching artificial intelligence, some other countries will continue to do i….
This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Every….
Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands..
Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing..
And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular sta….
The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change..
If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing..
Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite..
A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a p….
Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it..
Avice for a human. 87. Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhil….
Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside ….