"All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department."

“If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.”

Source : "My discoveries weren’t any more extensive or alarming than most people’s. I just chose to look". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

“Book five of Dork Diaries is one of my favorite books it brings my thoughts deep into the book and think if you haven't read it you should you will probably fell just as I fell.”

“Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.”

“Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.”

Source : "Fictional character: Holden". "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", www.imdb.com. 2001.

“I'm always looking for challenges.”

Source : "Q&A with ... Packers QB Aaron Rodgers: 'Let's go get another one'". Interview with Vinnie Iyer, www.sportingnews.com. February 7, 2011.

“The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it's being painted around me.”

“I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.”

“I came to graduate school with a certain vocabulary about how to talk about other people's stories, but I couldn't understand how to look at my own stories in that way. And that was what made editing such a challenge for me.”