I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck.

I put a knife in your hand and your first instinct was to stab me.""You tried to stab me first, " I objected without thinking.

I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.

I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I'd feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up.

It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.

I called the desert into a storm.

Live to the point of tears.

What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

The best way to keep money in perspective is to have some.

I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.