There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

Are you listening, Jasper? Sometimes you'll be walking in the city late at night, and a woman walking in front of you will spin her head around and then cross the street simply because some members of your gender rape women and molest children!

The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.

There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.