If you enjoy burning sage to remove the bad energy in a room, you might also want to consider burning some bridges to cleanse your life of the people who are no fucking good for you.

If we replaced cancel culture with critical thinking, we'd have empathetic conversations instead of emotional reactions. And, by talking, we learn to separate honest mistakes from actual hate.

I want to live in John Wick's New York City. Until then, all versions of the city will leave me yearning.

I don't consider myself an author because my books are all non-fiction. Writers write about the world. Authors create worlds.

The old method of catfishing was using somebody else's pictures to pretend you have a cute face, now it's using AI to pretend you have a fucking brain.

I like when people underestimate me. Not because I want to prove them wrong, but because it's nice to know who's dumb.

We have to resist the urge to label everything a mistake simply because it didn’t end up the way that we desired.

Writing is proof that emotions can live outside of the body.

If you knew the real life of half the people you take advice from online, you'd get real serious about ignoring what they have to say.

Follower count doesn’t mean anything. Engagement rate doesn’t mean anything. The only metric that matters is whether or not you are happy with the life that you have created for yourself. And, if you're not, what the fuck are you doing wasting all of your time online worrying

Views don’t mean anything if you view yourself differently whenever you don’t get enough. Likes don’t matter if you hate the person that you are. Engagement is a dead-end if you’re not actively engaged in your own life. All social media metrics are worthless if your self-worth

Unoriginality is a disease, a plague of the performer, and an epidemic of the human spirit. Fulfillment will never be found by looking around and doing exactly what everyone else is doing. You must create, you must originate, and by all means, you must resist the temptation to

Good fiction can do more for you than any number of self-help books.

Time-travel exists because of authors and artists.

A country that can no longer disagree without brutality, is a country that has lost all humanity.

It’s easy for people to hate the same things — it’s hard for people to hate different things and still not hate each other.

This has never been more apparent.

We’ve lost the plot. We’ve traded human curiosity for the life of performative robots. We’ve sold our souls to the endless scroll and there’s an entire generation who has no idea what it actually means to be human.