“I love comic books. I just do.”

Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they’re printed or what the media does with them. So there’s no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn’t have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

My biggest regret is that I’ve assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character. I don’t regret what has happened to me, but I regret the way I have dealt with it.

It’s an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.

I would really love to go on an archaeological dig.

Don’t let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone who doesn’t give a damn about you.

I have to feel like I’m in control of my body.

I could go days, weeks, without talking to another human being.

And you know, the people who hate kids and don’t want kids always end up having 50 of them.

I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe.

I married my husband who is thirteen years older, so I will always be a trophy wife for him.

I am not just sitting and reading everything because honestly sometimes the scripts that appeal to me are projects that are not good projects, but I just really like the script or the characters.

I haven’t gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.

Even when I’m trying to be straightforward and honest and my comments are innocent, inevitably they get turned into something sort of salacious.

There are the people who really, really enjoy being celebrities, and then there are the people who came by it maybe by accident.

Sarcasm doesn’t translate in print at all.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

I think if people read more, that is a better world.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.