There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

There will never be an excuse reasonable enough to not strive for a life of victory.

The hallmark of a decision in line with one’s inner development is a feeling of having laid down a burden and picked up a more natural responsibility.

The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street.

If u don't like warriors then i don't like u so go away u stalkers... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Saying you love someone is a good thing.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world.

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.

The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".