You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you'll see that teachers aren't particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as 'nobody can do anything

Blank paper has always inspired me.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.

They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.