Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

Pain is life. Life is pain.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

War can't bring peace in the world

It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

At least I get my little black dress cleaned once in awhile.

Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.