And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.

There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.

The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.

A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?

The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.

Drugs may know how to numb a brain, but the past never forgets to resurface.

Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave room for the reader's imagination and intellect.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a lot of different things!

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.