I do not know what I can do for this world but I will not let any harm come to you

There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

I would never see him again. But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him. Now I had only to trust in myself.

I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

To liberate yourself from your own self-judgment is to liberate others from it as well. To love yourself is an act of love for the world.

A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'

I am struck by how many leading women... today started as Girl Scouts. It is an organization that obviously develops strong women leaders.

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.

Running a liberal paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of an awl to a wild cat.

I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.