I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child

Language is fossil poetry

Love is beyond space and time. It reaches out to the heart of the person that you are missing. Love binds two souls and not two bodies.

We crave real people and are delighted when we find them.

A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment

The more successful you are the less accessible you will become.

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.