It's really inspiring to know that your publisher is so behind you. It makes you want to put forth your best work.

Comic-Con is definitely grown from just being about comics to being about all forms of media.

You--cannot ever be certain of those you love--that they will not hurt you, even loving you. But to make me certain to love you, will be to take away any love I might give you freely.

Prayer is divine.

Books are the mirror of the soul

I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.

A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.

I also fear that nothing really ends at the end. Things just keep going as long as memory can wield its ax, always finding a soft part in your mind to cut through and enter.

When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn’t let that person go just because you’re afraid.

Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.