What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?

You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they make love in the years that follow, the jar will never be emptied.’ And this means…?’ Well’, she said. ‘It’s interesting, isn’t it?

But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.

I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other way of writing. I think the thing that keeps me with comics is there's still so much to be done. There's still this huge unplowed field, this huge unexplored wilderness, and as long as I can keep doing new things and coming up with new things, I will.

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.