I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

I am part of this generation with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Peter Pan.' I think we all grew up in this culture of pirates.

Inclusiveness is expanded by grievance. If I were a mistress, I would not need to fight for my career.

We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of life we want to live and the imprint we will leave on others.

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.

It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.