I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.

There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

We writers are resilient souls.

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down, and if the place where the evil is sown passes not away, then cannot it come that is sown with good?

I can tell you without question that there is one key element that makes the difference between those who succeed and those who do not. That element is action.

I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.

Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life.

For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.

It's not that I'm retired, I just no longer accept acting work.

Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love. I now allow this love to flow to the surface.

Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374