I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that.

It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably most writers aren't getting enough support.

Nice girls are not supposed to be hungry. They are not supposed to feed themselves or care about their own food. They're definitely not supposed to take food out of a child's mouth.

It is radical for a woman to choose to survive and to choose to eat anything.

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

I've always been a teaser, even as a kid.

Don't you think almost anything can be funny? Almost anything.

You can hurt people's feelings if you laugh.

As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

It takes a real designer to design for real women.

Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem.

The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.

It will never be about our love for God. It will always be about His magnificent love for us.

The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.