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

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

For every teenager I know, having a phone is a mixed blessing, because your parents can press a button and figure out where you are.

Is it fair for the bears to come down to where humans live, looking for food? Is it fair for the Duke's soldiers to shoot at them? Is it fair for the bears to crush them with giant snowballs? Often, if you point out something that isn't fair, someone will reply, "Life isn't fair." What is to be done with such people?

I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.

I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of all my work. I thought it was light and sunshiny, and Mr. Clayton reminded me that it is the story of a woman kidnapped and forced to do things against her will, which is not what most people think of as light and sunshiny.

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.