The metaphors exist for the stories.

I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put it back together again and watch it go, what's the point?

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

The Hulk is rage personified, just, "I don't like something. Break it." And that's a great concept for a seven- or eight-year-old.

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldnt like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

I feel blessed, I really feel fulfilled.

Marketing has taken such a complete shift, thanks to the internet.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.