The best kind of amazing is when it is unexpected.

True wealth is in the heart.

The ugly man, is the harsh man.

Your glass seems like it will always be half full even it falls down and shatters to pieces

the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it. The odds are that it will fall into a regular metrical pattern.

My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

I think it's important how you spend your time. I try to make sure that I'm growing.

We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.

The academic life is wonderful. That's why people love to do research.

I've worked with pythons and such in a couple of movies, and I had to wrangle around, but I was okay. Still, if I'm out in the country or something, I'm still spooked by them.