We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.

You can’t know what is impossible until you are willing to venture past what is possible.

Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I hold things in and put the fire out?

I wish she’d said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can’t hide from it, not even here.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.

Every sign of gratitude is a sign of hope

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.