In the face of all that has happened, it feels good, really good, to just breathe for a moment.

That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It's never the same thing twice.

I know he sees it, because for the briefest moment he drops his expressionless mask and the look in his eyes shows me he feels the same way. A mirror of every part of myself I can't bear to face.

A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down.

I know there are things you aren’t telling me. Big things…Sir, I will find out. I only hope your reasoning is good enough for me to forgive you.

I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others.

No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.

Mather smiles at me through it, some of his tension softening before he drops his head in a small bow. "My queen, " he says in response.

All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.

Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.

Someone once said that nostalgia is longing for a place you’d never go back to and thinking about it… that’s pretty much how I’m feeling about my ex-husband: longing for someone I’d never go back to.

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually.

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

If I'm a faggot spell it right, I got way more than two G's

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them

I'm not comfortable telling my kids how they should be or how they should think or how they should act or anything else.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.