I love writing. It's a fun challenge. It refuels me personally.

You don't think about it that often, but you don't realize how many of your friends have come and gone. It makes you feel very fortunate.

It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.

Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.

[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment

My brain fizzles. The 'this is your brain on drugs' warning, should also issue a 'this is your brain when Jackson Reid looks at you like that, ' warning.

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

Of course not,” said Hermione. “Everything we need is here on this paper.

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.