Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

Science is just magic with better PR.

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

I don't try to take a person out of our world and put them into my world; that wouldn't work. It's sort of like bad Photoshop: If you see something Photoshopped together - and even if it's done pretty well - the eye catches on it. That happens a lot when people try to cut and paste people from our world into their fourteenth-century historical romance novel.

Joss [Whedon] is an excellent storyteller. It really doesn't matter what medium he's working in.

It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.

I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more.