I love cookies baking. During the winter, they have these candles that smell like cookies, and I always buy like a hundred of them.

There's no shame in having to fight every day, but fighting every day, and presumably, if you're still alive to hear these words or read this interview, then you are winning your war. You're here.

When life beats you down, NEVER give up.

If you're out there and need help, please seek it. Be proud of your valiant day-to-day struggle. There is no shame in needing support.

Don't place expectations on someone. Enjoy the time you have together, and let it go where it goes.

Just be yourself and the right guy will come along, whether it be today, tomorrow, or next year. It'll happen!

I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show!

I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.

There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.

Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car. And I do that when I get onto a plane as well!

I have been to Heaven, I've been to Hell, I've been possessed by Lucifer. You can't really get much bigger than that.

Walking out into the night with a water fey was all kinds of stupid. Heck, Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead.

Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.

Why all this fear and paranoia around Vault 7 and WikiLeaks? Solve the problem by demanding regulation that centers around Security by Design by technology manufactures, problem solved

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

This is one night I wish I smoked and drank.

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

An interesting opportunity is actually not just thinking about building organs for patients, but actually building little tiny organs that you could do drug screening on.

It's definitely more fun playing a bad guy. It feels a lot better than playing one of the good guys.