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What I've learned is that the most troublesome people don't tell you 100% of the story, and keep some facts to themselves. They just don't give you the full picture, and that's very worrisome to me.

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than they're actually capable of solving.

A really big thing I've learned - and I think it's so liberating - is when you realize no one knows what they're doing.

I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.

When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.