I can't protect you from knowledge.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

Intelligent men are dangerous.

This world has need of song and sword.

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.

It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

What we see, we see and seeing is changing

Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.

No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

I grew up always wanting to act, always knowing that's what I wanted to do.

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

You got to get away from words if you want to understand any animal. It thinks in pictures, it thinks in smells, it thinks in touch sensations - little sound bites like, it's a very detailed memory.