You want to know how I got these scars? I ripped every last piece of you out of my smile.

My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen.

Instead of asking why they left, now I ask, what beauty will I createin the space the no longeroccupy?

Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

But what if Oscar—” “Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?” “I was thinking what if he gets mad, but I think your way works as well.” “Then you shall make for a tasty meal.

Superfast beings shouldn't piss off the comics geek-girl.

There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

Some of my best thinking is done by others.

As weird as it is, as much as I love Southern California, the reality is I'm going to be somewhere else next season.

We all make terrible mistakes in our lives.

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.