I was big time into Barbie.

I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

I guess men like me - somebody out there must think I'm hot.

I don't even like to show midriff - it's my characters who are always showing midriff.

I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman.

I also had Wonder Woman Underoos that I really liked. I actually wore them as an outfit to school.

Never had it occurred to me that the things that had happened to me...might be a kind of trauma.

I'm not really very comfortable being hit on at all.

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

Peace among religions is a precondition for world peace.

The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started.

[Donald Trump] gets a 19 percent higher approval rating than [Hillary Clinton] does ,among military members.

There is no need to drag yourself through life, let go of the struggle & give yourself the time & love to find balance.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else.

But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.