What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

It's hard to be a bright light in a dim world.

He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.

I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour.

How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

Great rogues hang the little ones.

How do you keep ninety people together with one stick? I've got two sticks and I can't keep five people together.

There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.

When Republicans are down, in disarray, feeling blue, they turn to a tried-and-true elixir, sort of a Doctor Feelgood medicine for them. It's called tax cuts.

If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have defeated whole armies.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.