What are you?” he demanded. “A slayer?" I rolled my eyes. “The name's Val, not Buffy. Do I look like a blond cheerleader with questionable taste in men?

Don’t make your job your permanent assignment. Rather, make your work your permanent assignment

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.

Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

I'm not scared, because I know that I need to face the trial. What I mean is, I already expect I will need to pay the price.

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.