If I want to dress up like Princess Leia and lightsaber fight the clone army in my living room, well the Han Solo in my life is just going to have to accept it.

Without love, life was nothing but endless tasks and battles.

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snake.

Do not pay attention to my cousins. Every family needs a couple idiots and we keep them around for entertainment.

A stóirín, ya are a handful of trouble, but I kind of like it.

He kissed the corner of her lips before whispering by her ear, “And that was just my hand, love.

He’s not wearing…” Charlotte began.“I know. He doesn’t, ” Lydia answered.

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.

I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive," . . . and hangs up.

Nobody teaches life anything.

I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things.

At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.