No more looking at a wall and pretending it's a mirror. No more shelving fiction in the non-fiction section. No more thinking I could get away with it.

I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

What looks as a dead and dark end can become a glowing and shimmering start only if one has the patience to keep trying with positivity in the mind...

It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.

I try to be kind to people, to treat them with respect. And I'm proud of that.

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.

Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.