To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

Convincing someone to believe something that was inherently unbelievable often meant getting that person to make a quick and easy comparison to something they already knew.

Sometimes you had to make the animals perform.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.

Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.

For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.

To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up.

Obviously, I need to study princesses further.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.