I am willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn't have to!

If you're not interested in your work, you're not doing it right.

Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted].

There's a difference between feeling like I don't need to explain and deliberately confusing you. If the impression is that I'm deliberately confusing you, that is not what I am trying to do at all.

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.

One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.

I guess I am conscious of my weaknesses, and I think pacing is probably my biggest. I don't know if I think the clarity thing is actually a weakness. It was a stylistic choice.

My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting as I'd like it to be.

I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.

She told herself that she was happy to meet her executioner.

Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?

People who invest in aviation are the biggest suckers in the world.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

Players play, tough players win.

The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.