CURRENT MISSION Finishing my Criminology MA and getting a PhD ABOUT ME I'm an Italian Londoner who's just moved to Sydney to study criminology. I've studied journalism, worked in PR and written four novels. I love American Psycho, Alice Cooper and cupcakes. PHILOSOPHY I apologise, I know they're long, but I like quotes. Here are some of my favourites. "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me. Only an entity. Something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there." Patrick Bateman, American Psycho. "There are times when I don't like my own company. [...] I get lazy. My brain's not wild enough, not in tune enough, to be finding things that inspire me. [So] usually I go off on my own. I'll go take a trip alone. Just to get to the point where I know that, like it or not, I'm stuck with myself. That I have to go through this and figure out what the fuck it is that's bugging me." Matthew McConaughey, GQ US. "Evil has only the power that we give it. I give you nothing. I take back." Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes. "I believe that what doesn't kill you simply makes you...stranger." The Joker, The Dark Knight. "I woke up like this." Beyoncé. Sorry about that one. "What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?" Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn.