"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."

"A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up."

"The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it."

"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it."

"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."

"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

"The beauty of the unknown is that the strength of a community lies in its compassion."

"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."