Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.

I'm sorry I'm not more cultured. I'll watch PBS. And cut people open for fun. Will that be better? Will you be less embarrassed to be my fledgling then?

Wisdom is not in intelligence but in simplicity.

How you accept a situation, is your choice and depends on your power of perception.

The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

Actually, something is always happening. People who don't love the moment are always trying to achieve something, but when one is on the way, every moment is 'it.'

You have to have passion, go with your gut, go against the tide

I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.

That was liquid football

You have to control things, especially with the social media, because once it's out there, it's out there. And that becomes the fact.