Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

Captain?""Yeah?""Do you think it was destiny that brought us together?"He squinted and, after a thoughtful moment, shook his head. "No. I'm pretty sure it was Cinder.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

You saved me again," she told him with a starstruck gaze. He cupped her cheek and gave her a tender smile in the dark. "Because you are my princess and I am your knight.

I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.

There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.

I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader - that anybody could have.