You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.