“I love comic books. I just do.”

If you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model.

Life on earth is like college and we’re all just trying to pass the courses.

I was raised to believe that you’re safe in God’s hands. But I don’t feel safe with myself.

I need to behave in a way that will cause people to take me seriously.

I love comic books. I just do.

Women hold the power because we have the vaginas. If you’re in a heterosexual relationship and you’re a female, you win.

The things that happen in your life are either your choices or opportunities and lessons the universe has put before you. Life on earth is like college and we’re all just trying to pass the courses.

I have a mouth and I’m not afraid to use it.

All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.

I feel like it’s impossible to please the hardcore comic book fans, because they’ll never be happy no matter what you do.

Getting married was the best thing I’ve ever done.

I have to really enjoy someone’s personality, not just their looks, before I’ll kiss them.

Hold your head high, and your middle finger higher.

I feel intimidated by fashion.

To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women.

People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she’s so serious and stoic. I’m the opposite.

His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

I really like to look like a history book. I can look the 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I’ll pull that ’80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

So many books, so little time.

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.

Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I’m trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.