The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

I think I'm a love agnostic - not sure, one way or another, if it really exists.

Struggle is a prerequisite to surrender.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.

THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.

No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.

Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.

The most stylish country in the world is Italy.

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.