One unforeseen advantage of having a  child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.

I wondered then if there could ever be trust in a relationship based from the outset upon deceiving other people.

Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all.

You need to decide what works for you. But ultimately, hold out for adoration and respect

The past is always with us. It echoes through every living moment, giving it depth and meaning beyond itself. Sometimes the past is so powerful, those echoes threaten to overwhelm the present.

I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

We're all in the same game, just different levels. Dealing with the same hell, just different devils.

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.

Everything ultimately comes down to trust.

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

People want to bring kids to their level, and they want to make it seem like kids have this thing. It's seen as funny to them.

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.