But our mercy has a cost, and it might be our lives.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.

World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in.

I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death.

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.But there’s a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.

I am the shadow of the flame.

Shocked to see me?" I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.

I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me?I don’t know.And I don’t know how to make it stop.

They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.

Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly…nor should it be.

I am growing old of course, but I am still in the early stages of disintegration, and regarded as just about cool enough by some fashionable young ppl to be permitted to think aloud.

Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.

I think we get into very dangerous territory when we start to define who can and cannot be a feminist. It's such a slippery slope, and I have no interest in being the feminist police!

...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish.

Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.