I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better place. I'm grateful for my life and where I'm at. I never thought I could be in the position that I'm in.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

Margaret Atwood

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Lady Gaga

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Robert Quillen

A lie cannot live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time.

Charles Dickens

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

Publilius Syrus

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Dirk Benedict

I love Jay personally and as an artist; I think he's incredible.

Angie Martinez

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Stephen Sondheim

Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.

George Eliot