No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

Besides, killing all the humans will totally trash the cable schedule, and there are some shows I'm really excited to have back on the air.

There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.

The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.

If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.

People say things like "it wasn't supposed to go this way" and "this isn't what I wanted." They're just making noise. There's no such thing as "supposed to," and what you want doesn't matter. All that matters is what happened.