Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Mutually assured destruction.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?

You have to stop and freeze the moment, " he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it in your head over and over. You have to write to preserve your sanity.

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.

Always argue over text so other people aren't embarrassed!

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

I like to keep my surroundings low-key. I don't need much around me. I'm easy don't need a lot of racket.