I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches.

I want my chirfugging goose back!

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

You’re a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.

I find podcasting an enticing space.

It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

I'm fighting for people who cannot wait for changes, and I'm not making promises that I cannot keep.

The natural resources we've depended on, if the places where they exist are not stable, our own livelihood and our health is put at risk.

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.