A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Still, beauty can mask deadly danger.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

And failure, if you want to know, Dakota, is just another opportunity to try again.

Remember when we were children and life was simple

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.

All extremes are dangerous.