Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

Your body hears everything your mind says.

Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real.

You only get to be a victim once. After that, you're a volunteer.

Slow down, simplify and be kind.

You're only a victim once. The next time you're an accomplice.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!

People always say 'They [teens] need a good talking to.' I've never agreed with that. A kid needs a good listening to.

I don't want tobecause boysdon't write poetry.Girls do.

You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?

Her voice.That's what drew me to her. It was gorgeous, perfect, angelic.Ironic, that a demon should be drawn to the voice of an angel.

Reality confounds image.

You must have a strong will and determined spirit to fight any form of oppression.

My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.

Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.